TRS demands 80% jobs for locals in T region

Hyderabad: Following the footsteps of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS),the TRS has decided to launch an agitation demanding 80 per cent jobs to locals in private and corporate sectors in Telangana region. TRS politburo member and former MP B Vinod Kumar said the party was conducting a survey to find out the percentage of jobs offered to Telangana people in every private company owned by indus-trialists belonging to non-T region or other states. Alleging that the private companies are giving priority to people from other regions,he said after getting a detailed report,TRS will write letters to all such managements asking them to provide jobs to locals.If they do not fall in line,TRS will organise gate crash agitations and force them to shut units. The TRS also demanded the government to bring changes in the new industrial policy,to be unveiled in April first week,facilitating more employment opportunities to local people in private sector.The TRS was demanding jobs to people based on their origin. He pointed out that neighbouring states like Karnataka,TN and Kerala have already adopted such policies of providing jobs to locals.Most of the companies established in and around Hyderabad have been owned by non-Telangana industrialists.So they should provide jobs to locals, Vinod reasoned out.
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DANGEROUS GAMES - Show of strength by politicians. Hyderabad: Communal conflagrations have become commonplace in many parts of the country, but Hyderabad has remained free of such disturbances for the last decade and a half.But perhaps with politicians with an agenda on the prowl,it was too good to last for ever. Though trouble broke out on Saturday night,tension has been simmering since last week in the Old City.The first signs of tension showed up in Madannapet when saffronites tried to remove green flags that had been put up a month ago to celebrate Milad-un-Nabi.This was with the express objective of putting up saffron flags to mark the Sri Ram Navami celebrations on March 24.The police doused the tension but failed to apprehend that it would reappear in other neighbour hoods.Interestingly,the Ram Navami procession this time around was unusually big. On the weekend, organisers of Hanuman Jayanti celebrations in Moosa Bowli in the Old City tried to hoist their flags and buntings,removing the ones that had been put up for Milad-un-Nabi. Heated arguments erupted followed by clashes.Trouble mongers disguised their identities by covering their faces with cloth and carried swords and lathis.This points out that there was an element of planning involved and the trouble was not spontaneous.

The news about the incident at Moosa Bowli spread like wildfire and some groups were ready for signals to start the fights in their own areas.Chaar Mahal,a locality which had largely remained out of communal trouble in the past,came into picture.There were also incidents of group clashes,stone pelting and arson from areas such as Lal Darwaza,Moghalpura,Golla Khidki and Purana Pul. According to political analysts the way Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) backed the Milad celebrations on February 24 by turning the entire Old City green with flags and buntings,did not go well with those opposed to its philosophy.They pointed out that MIM had never shown this zeal in celebrating the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed. The unrestrained rallies on four wheelers and motorbikes all culminating into a massive public meeting caused not a little bit of surprise, says an analyst.The Milad Day celebrations were a show of strength by the MIM.What was the purpose Why did the police not intervene to control and manage the rallies and public meetings Ramchander of Sultan Shahi wonders.Analysts are also wondering why the municipal authorities were not egged on by the police to remove the green buntings once the celebrations were over.

MIMs pronounced tilt towards united Andhra and against a separate Telangana has also not gone well with the proponents of T state.The BJP is one of the main supporters of the T-cause,though it has no real strength in Hyderabad or the Old City,the party has got enthused with the appointment of a new state president Kishen Reddy.The Milad functions were coincidentally followed by visits by Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders like Praveen Togadia and Dharmendra Acharya. While MIM protested strongly against mayor Banda Karthika Reddy sharing the dais with Togadia,the Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) lodged a police complaint against the utterances of Acharya who reportedly said unsavory things about the Muslims.He declared that his followers would show how strong they were during Hanuman Jayanti that is scheduled for March 29.
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