The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) has called upon all its affiliated to enforce boycott of work at government offices and closure of schools, colleges and courts indefinitely from September 13 as part of the general strike in support of separate Telangana.
The offices of heads of departments in Hyderabad should also not be allowed to function, it was resolved at a meeting of the steering committee of JAC here on Saturday.
The meeting welcomed the decision of Telangana film chamber to close cinema halls and multiplexes in the region, numbering 450, on September 14 and 15. The chamber president M. Vijayender Reddy was present.
Briefing reporters later, the JAC chairman M. Kodandaram said it was decided to start hunger strike camps throughout Telangana from September 13. Processions would be taken out to the camps.
He decried the disinformation campaign by some Telangana leaders that the strike would serve no purpose. Appealing to people to ignore it, he said the campaign was run by forces opposed to Telangana. He urged them to mount pressure on Ministers and MLAs of the region to resign.
The Telangana employees' association president C. Vittal and Telangana Gazetted Officers Association president V. Srinivas Goud said the meeting went into the misleading tactics of Congress leaders in extending support to the strike but showing no inclination to participate in it. They rejected the support and asked the Congress to join the strike.
