OU students hold peace rally

Hyderabad: Students of Osmania University held a peace rally from Arts College to the NCC gate on Wednesday to pay tributes to M Sai Kumar Yadav,who committed suicide on Tuesday morning in support of Telangana agitation.Hundreds of students who gathered at Arts College by 5 pm took out a rally around 6.30 pm holding candles till the gate. Students who were carrying enlarged photographs of Sai Kumar alleged that the political representatives of various parties are responsible for the death of students in T region. The protesting students demanded that the minitech hostel be renamed after Sai Kumar.The university authorities should rename the hostel in memory of Sai Kumar, said O U Joint Action Committee (OU-JAC ) representatives.The students said that they will not hinder the examinations which are expected to resume from March 11.

Sai Kumars last rites performed

The body of M Sai Kumar,who allegedly ended his life for Telangana cause,was cremated at his native Kapugallu village in Kodad mandal in Nalgonda district on Wednesday.The second year B Tech student allegedly hanged himself in his hostel room on the Osmania University campus on Tuesday in support of separate Telangana.Though Telangana Joint Action Committee activists put up road blockades at several places leading to tense moments,the final rites were performed in the village in the evening.A suicide note purportedly written by 21-yearold Kumar said the youth should take up the T-movement with renewed vigour.The students did not allow a postmortem and held a sit-in at Gandhi Hospital for over 10 hours.An autopsy was conducted late on Tuesday night after intervention by the AP State Human Rights Commission after which the body was taken to Kodad.TNN

TELANGANA TANGLE - Cong,PRP MLAs from Seema for united AP

Hyderabad: Legislators from the Rayalaseema region belonging to Congress and Prajarajyam on Wednesday decided to submit a common memorandum to the Srikrishna committee favouring united Andhra Pradesh. However,J C Diwakar Reddy,a Congress MLA from Anantapur district,sprang a surprise by proposing that the region should go with Telangana in case thedivision of the state was inevitable.The region would suffer if it goes with Andhra region.Issues like water sharing will hit if the division of the state takes place, he said. Ealier too,Reddy raised a demand by proposing that Anantapur should go to Karnataka.Talking to the media,T G Venkatesh,the man behind the meeting,admitted that entire Rayalaseema would fight for the united Andhra Pradesh.As far as preserving the status quo of the state,we (leaders of different political parties) are one.We will submit a single memorandum to the committee, he said. Admitting that opinions differed on the future of the region in the divided state, Venkatesh said the issue was not discussed in todays meeting.Some people want to go with Telangana while other want Greater Rayalaseema.This is not the issue before us now.This will be discussed when need arises, he said.Venkatesh,however,said the MLAs would meet again on March 18 to finalise their report on the collective stand of Rayalaseema.

There were no takers for the Rayalaseema merging with Telangana as proposed by Diwakar Reddy.The proposal was opposed by Bhuma Sobha Nagi Reddy,a PRP MLA from Kurnool district,who said it was not practical.Rayalaseema should fight for the unity of the state.It was Rayalaseema which stood to lose by agreeing for the united Andhra Pradesh in 1956.The region lost the capital an irreparable loss as a state capital in the area would have transformed the region by now.So,fighting for the preservation of Andhra Pradesh is the right of the people of Seema, she told TOI.TDP,even though invited for the meeting,kept itself away saying there was no unified voice in the Congress.There is no consistency in the stand among the Congress members.Some are for Greater Rayalaseema,some want Anantapur district to go with Karnataka,and some want to merge with Telangana after the division of the state.So,we do want to send out such conflicting views to the people, said K E Krishna Murthy,TDP MLA and former minister from Kurnool district.

(source-toi)