A delegation of Telangana Congress Monitoring Group led by G. Niranjan, PCC general secretary, continued their Gandhian-type of demonstration by handing over rose flowers and a representation to Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad at a hotel in the city on Thursday.
The representation said that nothing short of expeditious separation of Telangana can save the party. It said the December 9, 2009 announcement of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the initiation of process of separate statehood was being treated as the birthday gift of AICC president. The TCMG members also raised pro-Telangana slogans.
Gaining momentum
Thursday also saw advocates and doctors owing allegiance to the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) clutching roses and approaching politicians of all hues for their cause.
When Congress leaders came to Indira Park to participate in the 92{+n}{+d} birth anniversary celebrations of former Chief Minister Marri Channa Reddy, a group of Telangana supporters lay in wait for them, albeit with roses!
They stopped the vehicles of PCC president D. Srinivas and Major Industries Minister J. Geeta Reddy and presented flowers to them and later met vice-chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Congress legislator Marri Shashidhar Reddy with roses.
“Please participate in the ongoing agitation for Telangana to exert pressure on the Centre for a Bill in the forthcoming Parliament budget session,” they appealed. Telangana Advocates Joint Action Committee co-convenor T. Sri Ranga Rao said the demonstration was organised as part of ‘mulakat' call given by the TJAC.
The pro-Telangana supporters later went to the MIM party office in Dar-us-Salam seeking the party president Asaduddin Owaisi's support for the agitation.
As he was not there, they gave flowers to the legislator Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri and sought the party's support.
They also met Labour Minister D. Nagender. The Minister, however, maintained that the high command has already seized of the issue.
When advocates and doctors went to Musheerabad MLA T. Mannema's house, she was away from the house. Then they gave flowers to the family members.
On coming to know that TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu was meeting the party leaders from Telangana region, they visited his residence only to find that the leaders left the place.
