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`Telangana Garjana' to be held on Jan. 6

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Dec. 29. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) will organise a public meeting -- Telangana Garjana -- at the Parade Grounds here on January 6 demanding Krishna and Godavari waters for the development of Telangana.

The Defence Ministry has given permission for the meeting, a non-political one, the TRS president, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, told mediapersons here on Sunday. Mr. Rao insisted that it was not a political meeting since there were no elections around. Moreover, it was not a meeting being organised at the call of the party. He appealed to the public to turn up voluntarily.

The TRS chief condemned the statement of the CPI State Secretary, S. Sudhakar Reddy, that the BJP had hijacked the TRS and said Mr. Reddy had made the remarks out of envy for them. The TRS was a bigger party than the CPI in Telangana in all respects and this was something the CPI could not digest.

Mr. Rao referred to Mr. Reddy as someone who had no moral right to speak about Telangana since the Left parties had opposed separate statehood for the region all through. Referring to the demand of Mr. Reddy that he condemn a statement by Mr. Narendra that the TRS is willing to support the NDA Government, Mr. Rao said it was not necessary since the TRS had taken a stand that it would forge an alliance with any party that would supported the issue of statehood for Telangana. The norm was the same for NDA, Congress and even the TDP, he said and added that the TRS had expressed its readiness to work with the Congress long back if it adopted a resolution on statehood for Telangana.

Mr. Rao said the police had booked false cases against TRS activists in the city during the party-sponsored bandh on Friday and demanded that they be lifted.

He demanded the arrest of the persons who were involved in the murder of the vice-president of the Medak district unit of TRS, Manik Chauhan Naik, at Narayankhed on Saturday. He thanked the party rank and file who had worked hard to make the party programme -- Jala Sadhana -- a success last month.

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