Telugu Desam Party’s Telangana State unit has demanded the State Government of taking steps to fill the vacant posts of veterinary surgeons.
Recruitment to the posts, more than 60% of which are lying vacant, should be done directly from the universities instead of entrusting the responsibility to the Telangana State Public Service Commission, it said. Steps should be taken to ensure at least one doctor each to 5,000 cattle in line with the recommendations made by M.S. Swaminathan Commission, TDP working president A. Revanth Reddy said.
Mr. Revanth Reddy participated in the protest launched by the students of Veterinary University at Rajendranagar on Tuesday.
He cautioned the students that the Government could resort to ‘divide and rule policy’ as it had done in the case of opposition parties to dilute the agitation launched by them. It could indulge in steps like closing mess and hostels to weaken the ongoing agitation.
Students were prepared to take to agitational path as they were disillusioned by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao-led Government, he opined.
The agitation brewing among the student community could be gauged from the fact that the Chief Minister shied away from speaking at the centenary celebrations of the Osmania University recently.
“The Chief Minister is not willing to face students, farmers and other sections as they understood the ‘true colours’ of the Government,” he said.
While 369 persons sacrificed their lives in the first phase of agitation for separate State, 1,200 more took to the extreme step during the concluding phase. “But the sacrifices made by students are being used to serve the interests of a single family,” he observed.
