Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President & MP A. Revanth Reddy on warned the TRS Government of serious consequences if it continues to use intimidating tactics to suppress the voice of the Congress party for demanding justice for students and jobless youth.
He was speaking to a media person at his residence in Jubilee Hills after he was prevented from going out to formally launch the 67-day long ‘Vidyarthi Nirudyoga Jung Siren’. He announced that the ‘jung siren’ (war bugle) against TRS Government’s anti-student and anti-youth policies has been sounded and the movement would now spread to all nooks and corners of Telangana in the next 67 days. “Despite the illegal arrest of hundreds of workers house arrest of several leaders and deployment of hundreds of police personnel at LB Nagar and Dilsukhnagar crossroads, the Congress activists paid tributes to Telangana martyr Srikanth Chary and took a vow to fight against the TRS Govt for its betrayal against students and jobless youth. Today being Mahatma Gandhi Jayanthi, we’ve displayed utmost restraint as we strongly believe in peace and non-violence. But tomorrow we may not behave in a similar manner. CM KCR and KTR cannot stop the Congress party from fighting for the rights of lakhs of students and jobless youth,” he said.
KCR Govt suppressing opposition like Taliban
Earlier, Revanth Reddy had a heated argument with the police officials and sought an explanation for his illegal house arrest. Alleging that TRS Govt was acting like ‘Taliban’, he asked whether paying tributes to Telangana martyr Srikanth Chary was banned in Telangana. “Why are we being stopped from remembering Srikanth Chary who laid down his life for the statehood cause? Are we paying tributes to Kasab or some other terrorists? By deploying hundreds of policemen at Dilsukhnagar and LB Nagar crossroads TRS Govt is giving an impression as if some kind of India-Pakistan or India-China war is being fought on borders. With such actions, KCR has declared a war against all students and jobless youth and trying to prevent Congress from seeking justice for them,” he said.
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Revanth, along with TPCC Political Affairs Committee Convener Mohammed Ali Shabbir and other leaders and hundreds of workers, staged a sit-in protest at his residence for quite a long time. Speaking to media persons, Reddy asked as to why KCR was allergic to the names of Telangana martyrs. “KCR is preventing us from paying tributes to Srikanth Chary as if he was some international terrorist like Kasab,” he said.
The TPCC Chief said the war bugle has been sounded and the 67-day long movement of the Congress party would end with a massive public meeting of lakhs of students and youth at Parade Grounds on December 9. KCR will be forced to hide in Pragathi Bhavan or his farmhouse, he said.
He said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi granted statehood for Telangana in view of the struggle and sacrifices given by students and youth. It was unfortunate for Telangana that KCR came to power twice and he turned the entire State into his personal fiefdom. He said that the Congress party wanted one Primary School in every 1 KM radius, one Upper Primary school in 3 KM, High School in 5 KM, one junior college in Gram Panchayat, Degree College in every mandal, Engineering College in each Revenue Division and one medical college in each district. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was also instrumental in implementing the Right to Education Act to provide 25% reservation to poor students in all private schools. But the TRS Govt shut down 4,634 schools, denied funds and resources to colleges and universities and stopped the fee reimbursement scheme. He said poor parents were forced to send their children to private and corporate schools due to TRS Govt.
the TPCC Chief said that the TRS Govt’s negligence in clearing Fee Reimbursement dues was ruining the careers of lakhs of students. “Private colleges are humiliating the students for their inability to clear Fee Reimbursement dues. A Dalit girl, Lavanya of Wanaparthy, committed suicide over the issue of Fee Reimbursement. It was not a suicide, but an institutional murder and KCR is responsible for the same,” he said.
Reddy demanded that the KCR Government immediately clear the fee reimbursement dues of over Rs. 4,000 Crore. He also demanded that all 1.91 lakh vacancies, identified by the Biswal Committee, must be filled immediately. Further, he said that the State Government pay the promised Unemployment Allowance to all eligible persons with retrospective effect from December 2018.
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The TPCC President appealed to all Telangana activists, employees, Singareni and RTC workers, students and other sections of the society to support the Congress party’s ‘Vidyarthi Nirudyoga Jung Siren’ and join the ‘Aakhiri Poratam’ (last struggle) against dictatorial
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