TRS leaders mount pressure on the Govt.

“Eleven years back, Telangana Rashtra Samiti was formed with one idea, the formation of Telangana state. Two years back when our leader Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao sat on a fast unto death, the union government came forward and has given a categorical assurance that Telangana would be created as the 29th state of the Indian union. This promise was made in both the Houses of Parliament, in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,” said Rao.

“Two years later, now Telangana is still waiting for justice. We are demanding the Central Government to live up to the promises, they have made to the people, live up to the assurances they have given to the people in both the Houses of Parliament,” he added. Meanwhile, Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee Chairman Swamy Goud condemned the use of paramilitary forces by the government to crush down the peaceful protests carried out by the TRS leaders and other supporters, following the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi.

“We are protesting peacefully since so many years, but today eight lakh 50 thousand RTC (Road Transport Corporation), advocates, state government employees and officers and engineers are sitting on strike in Telangana. The public is on strike,” said Goud. “We came to Delhi today with a request to the federal government it is wrong on the government’s part to deploy paramilitary forces and police to crush down the peaceful protests going on in Telangana. The government should instead try and solve the matter,” he added.

The four-decade-old demand for Telangana, which seeks to carve out of the economically less developed part of Andhra Pradesh, gathered momentum last year after the Congress-led UPA Government accepted the demand in principle. Several protests and shutdowns had brought Andhra Pradesh to a near halt in 2009 and 2010, as pro-Telangana activists persisted with their demand.

The birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, popularly known as the ‘Father of the Nation’, is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 with reverence all over the country. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as ‘Bapu’, or Gandhiji, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbander, Gujarat. Gandhiji was a preacher of truth (Satyagraha) and ‘ahimsa’ (non-violence). He started the ‘Satyagraha’ movement for the Indian freedom struggle. He believed in living a simple life and in ‘Swadeshi’.

He proved to the world that freedom can be achieved through the path of non-violence – a true symbol of peace and truth! The United Nations had declared in 2007 that October 2 would be observed as ‘International Day of Non-Violence’

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