Congress MPs K Keshava Rao and Madhu Yashki Goud strongly condemned the foisting of nonbailable cases on MPs and MLAs who participated in the rail roko. Addressing the media late night at Raos Jubilee Hills residence after their release from custody,the MPs also crossed swords with the T ministers for appealing to the employees to call off the agitation. The MPs participation in the rail roko ensured the peaceful conduct of the agitation.Still,the police booked cases under various sections including that for damaging railway property, he said.
Taking strong objection to the police threatening life conviction in these cases,Rao termed the goverments attitude as undemocratic.Even the railway recognises rail roko as a democratic form of protest.But,the police treat it as violence, he said. Rao challenged police to show even a single instance of MPs damaging public property.All the cases are being converted into non-bailable ones by invoking this section, he alleged. He also said their agitation will continue till a credible road map on state formation was issued by Centre. The MPs demanded that all the cases booked on the agitators be withdrawn.
================================
Minister Jana urges employees to end stir
Hyderabad: The steering committee of the Telangana Congress,formed to carry forward the movement for a separate state,appears to be pulling in different directions. While all the eight MPs including
K Keshava Rao, Madhu Yashki, G Vivek, Ponnam Prabhakar,S Rajaiah and Manda Jagannatham were arrested for actively participating in the rail roko on Saturday, the ministers led by K Jana Reddy appealed to striking teachers and employees to call off their agitation immediately. The ministers, who have been under pressure from the party MPs to resign from the cabinet in protest against repression unleashed by the police to foil the rail roko, met at Jana Reddys residence and resolved to work to persuade the employees to call off the agitation. Later, the ministers J Geeta Reddy, B Saraiah,
D Sridhar Babu, P Sabita Indra Reddy and D K Aruna met chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and urged him to resolve the issue amicably. Emerging from the meeting,Jana Reddy said the strike should be called off as the Centre was seized of the matter.We have effectively conveyed the aspirations of the people and the Centre also took note of the gravity of the situation.As the efforts are being made to fulfill the aspirations of Telangana people,there is no need to continue the strike, Jana Reddy said.
The ministers congratulated the employees,teachers,APSRTC and other organizations for successfully continuing the agitation for a month.Now,we have to take care that the development of the region should not be adversely affected.We have to put an end to the sufferings of the people, Reddy said.
Calling off the strike and other activities provided an opportunity to the leaders in Delhi to take a decision as per the aspirations of the people,he added.
==================================
TJAC green signal to RTC strike call off
The Telangana Forum of National Mazdoor Union (NMU) called off their 27-day APSRTC strike after holding talks with transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana late on Saturday night.TNMU co-convenor K Hanumathu told STOI that they decided to end the strike following Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) chairman M Kodandaram agreeing to exempt APSRTC from the Sakala Janula Samme.Announcing the decision,transport minister Satyanarayana said that TNMU leaders during the discussion raised several issues concerning the welfare of workers.The strike is affecting general public and I am pleased that the union members decided to call off their strike,'' Satyanarayana said.However,the TNMU activists claimed they had just deferred the strike.It was the second time in a week an announcement on the strike was made.On October 10,the NMU leaders had called off the strike,but their Telangana counterparts refused to resume duty.Earlier,the state government had given the workers assurance that the services of 6,000 contract employees would be regularized and the workers would be paid salaries for the strike period (27 days).In Bus Bhavan,80% of the employees are from Seemandhra region,so we demanded that equal proportion of Telangana employees be posted there, Hanumanthu said.APSRTC,in a statement,said 5,652 buses plied on Saturday.
===============================
(Source-toi)
Taking strong objection to the police threatening life conviction in these cases,Rao termed the goverments attitude as undemocratic.Even the railway recognises rail roko as a democratic form of protest.But,the police treat it as violence, he said. Rao challenged police to show even a single instance of MPs damaging public property.All the cases are being converted into non-bailable ones by invoking this section, he alleged. He also said their agitation will continue till a credible road map on state formation was issued by Centre. The MPs demanded that all the cases booked on the agitators be withdrawn.
================================
Minister Jana urges employees to end stir
Hyderabad: The steering committee of the Telangana Congress,formed to carry forward the movement for a separate state,appears to be pulling in different directions. While all the eight MPs including
K Keshava Rao, Madhu Yashki, G Vivek, Ponnam Prabhakar,S Rajaiah and Manda Jagannatham were arrested for actively participating in the rail roko on Saturday, the ministers led by K Jana Reddy appealed to striking teachers and employees to call off their agitation immediately. The ministers, who have been under pressure from the party MPs to resign from the cabinet in protest against repression unleashed by the police to foil the rail roko, met at Jana Reddys residence and resolved to work to persuade the employees to call off the agitation. Later, the ministers J Geeta Reddy, B Saraiah,
D Sridhar Babu, P Sabita Indra Reddy and D K Aruna met chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and urged him to resolve the issue amicably. Emerging from the meeting,Jana Reddy said the strike should be called off as the Centre was seized of the matter.We have effectively conveyed the aspirations of the people and the Centre also took note of the gravity of the situation.As the efforts are being made to fulfill the aspirations of Telangana people,there is no need to continue the strike, Jana Reddy said.
The ministers congratulated the employees,teachers,APSRTC and other organizations for successfully continuing the agitation for a month.Now,we have to take care that the development of the region should not be adversely affected.We have to put an end to the sufferings of the people, Reddy said.
Calling off the strike and other activities provided an opportunity to the leaders in Delhi to take a decision as per the aspirations of the people,he added.
==================================
TJAC green signal to RTC strike call off
The Telangana Forum of National Mazdoor Union (NMU) called off their 27-day APSRTC strike after holding talks with transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana late on Saturday night.TNMU co-convenor K Hanumathu told STOI that they decided to end the strike following Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) chairman M Kodandaram agreeing to exempt APSRTC from the Sakala Janula Samme.Announcing the decision,transport minister Satyanarayana said that TNMU leaders during the discussion raised several issues concerning the welfare of workers.The strike is affecting general public and I am pleased that the union members decided to call off their strike,'' Satyanarayana said.However,the TNMU activists claimed they had just deferred the strike.It was the second time in a week an announcement on the strike was made.On October 10,the NMU leaders had called off the strike,but their Telangana counterparts refused to resume duty.Earlier,the state government had given the workers assurance that the services of 6,000 contract employees would be regularized and the workers would be paid salaries for the strike period (27 days).In Bus Bhavan,80% of the employees are from Seemandhra region,so we demanded that equal proportion of Telangana employees be posted there, Hanumanthu said.APSRTC,in a statement,said 5,652 buses plied on Saturday.
===============================
(Source-toi)
No comments:
Post a Comment