The Telangana Praja Front proposes to organize a massive public meeting at the Arts College Grounds here on Sunday evening.
Revolutionary poet Varavara Rao and others said the meeting was organised to commemorate the two decades of ‘Warangal ‘Declaration’. The peoples’ organizations declared that separate Telangana was meant for poor and oppressed and not for political unemployees. After a prolonged struggle people have achieved their dream but their aspirations remain unfulfilled even after formation of separate Telangana.
“People have voiced their concern and demands in Warangal in 1996-1997, at Bhuvanagiri in 1997, at Suryapet in 1996. In 1997 over two lakh people turned up for the public meeting organized by Akhila Bharatha Praja Prathighatana where the Warangal Declaration was passed,” he recalled. The separate Telangana which was formed in June 2014 has failed to meet the expectations of poor and needy. The much sought after self respect, self rule and cultural identity still remain a far cry for millions of people of Telangana.
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The Telangana Praja Front aims at creating awareness among the masses and soon after the public meeting, it would organize similar meetings across the state and educate people about the declaration.
The proposed public meeting would be addressed by the leaders of various peoples’ organizations and intellectuals — Haragopal, P. L. Visweswar Rao, J. Mallaiah Gupta, Surepalli Sujatha and Manoranjan Mohanty among others.