T-activists warn govt of militant agitation

Separate Telangana state activists on Monday warned the government of militant struggle in case the Centre fails to announce the bifurcation of state on January 28.In a round table meeting convened by the pro-Telangana New Democracy Party here,the stakeholders of the movement resolved to launch militant agitation aimed at stalling the functioning of the government machinery. Representatives of Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (T-JAC ),T Nagara Samithi headed by independent legislator Nagam Janardana Reddy,and the political parties including Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS),BJP,and CPI took part in the round table meeting. We have decided to turn the Telangana movement into a militant struggle,if there is no forward movement on T-state after January 28.There would be no further talks or deliberations with the government or policy-makers.And it would be a decisive battle, T-JAC chairman M Kodandaram told TOI. While he declined to divulge the mode of agitation,he sought to clarify that it would not be an armed struggle.A Gandhian way of agitation is also militant when it comes to non-cooperation with the establishment.In that sense,ours will be a militant agitation,but it will be more aggressive, Kodandaram added. Sources,who took part in the round table meeting,said the meeting decided to device strategies to paralyze the government.There would be agitational programmes including laying siege to the Secretariat,government offices and establishments,and the residences of the members of the ruling Congress party.We want to take the movement forward in a non-violent way.But if violence erupts during the course of the movement,the government must take the blame for it, said aT-JAC leader. Kodandaram (Source-TOI)