United AP backers restive over TJAC moves

Hyderabad: With the Telangana Political JAC announcing its programme of agitation for the next 15 days on Sunday and urging the people of the region to intensify the movement in case the UPA government backs out on the separate state demand,the Seemandhra region has become restive. The TJAC,which met here under the chairmanship of M Kodandaram on Sunday,announced a series of programs for the next two weeks to mount pressure on the Congress high command and UPA government for a favorable decision on Telangana. The entire top brass which included Kodandaram,G Devi Prasad and K Srinivas Goud attended the meeting.Emerging from the meeting,Kodandaram announced the action plan till January 27.January 28 is the deadline stated by the UPA government for announcing their decision on the demand for statehood for Telangana. As per the programme,TJAC will observe Mauna Deeksha at martyrs memorial pillar near Assembly and another protest program will be organised on January 27.Throughout the period between January 17 and 27,Telangana activists will take out protest marches across the region. Kodandaram said the TJAC would sound the war bugle in association with all similar organisations in case there was no Telangana announcement on January 28.If there is no announcement before January 26,we will meet on 27 and finalise the Maha Pratighatana to be organised after January 28.Organisations of teachers,RTC,Singareni Colleries and government employees of various departments will formulate their own agitation activites, he said. Meanwhile,Seemandhra Congress leaders including ministers,apprehensive of a possible bifurcation of the state,also decided to intensify their efforts to stall such an eventuality.The leaders,who met in the Congress legislature party (CLP) office here on Sunday,decided to undertake a Delhi tour in the next few days to meet the AICC leadership and oppose any move to bifurcate the state.Among those present at the meeting were school education minister S Sailajanath,tourism minister Vatti Vasant Kumar and former ministers Gade Venkata Reddy and JC Diwakar Reddy. Sailajanath said a broadbased meeting is being planned with all Seemandhra leaders either on next Tuesday or Wednesday.He did not rule out a Delhi Yatra for the purpose. Even though there was a categorical assurance from the leadership against the division of the state,fear of a last minute change of mind in Delhi is haunting them.We dont want to be caught by surprise like the one we faced on December 9,2010 when then home minister P Chidambaram announced a road map for the creation of Telangana.Our plan is to avoid such a disaster, a leader told the media. Sources said all central ministers from Seemandhra which include V Kishore Chandra Deo,D Purandeswari,MM Pallam Raju,Panabaka Laskhmi,Killi Kruparani and K Surya Prakash Reddy and Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal,Rajya Sabha members Renuka Chowdary and KVP Ramachandra Rao are said to be lobbying against the division of the state at their level i.e.both at government and at party levels.