JAC to flood Srikrishna panel with separate state pleas

The Telangana Joint Action Committee headed by M Kondandaram has decided to flood the Srikrishna Committee with 36 representations explaining the injustice meted to the region in providing government jobs and reasons for its backwardness during the first week of April.The JAC consists of 36 organisa-tions. The TNGO association has already prepared a 150-page report explaining how the government failed to implement GO 610, Girglani commission report and Jayabharat Reddy commission recommen-dations for provision of employment to Telangana people. Telangana JAC convener K Swamy Goud told newsmen on Wednesday that the employees association leaders will meet committee members and explain how the successive governments failed to implement the special provisions meant to provide jobs to locals. Pointing out that Jayabharat Reddy commission had stated that 59,000 non- Telangana people were employed in panchayatraj, municipal administration, revenue, police, excise and prohi-bition, rural development and education departments and recommended that the non locals be shifted to their parent region.He alleged that governments indifferent attitude towards implementation of GO 610 and other recommendations caused huge loss to Telangana people in getting their due share in employ-ment. Referring to the bus yatra, Goud said JAC will launch second phase of yatra in Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts during second week of April.
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T delay will push youth towards Maoist party


Maoist party former state committee leader Ganti Prasadam has warned that more people from the region will join the rebel party if the Centre drags its feet on carving out a separate Telangana state.
Speaking to reporters here,Prasadam said the people,particularly youth,are losing patience because of the inordinate delay in announcing Telangana state.He said the Telangana movement was over 60 years old and naxalites had always supported the sentiments of the people. He criticised the state government for submitting a report to the Centre stating that Maoists were actively involved in the ongoing movement for a separate state.Naxals always stand by the poor, he asserted. Prasadam said the Union government should stick to its December 9 statement and announce a separate state.The former naxal leader was here to attend court in connection with a conspiracy case.
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(source-toi)