Date:20/04/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/20/stories/2007042007380300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

MPRS leader's threat

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) president Manda Krishna Madiga has declared his intention to launch an indefinite hunger strike from May 17 if a Bill for categorisation of the Scheduled Castes was not introduced in the session of Parliament commencing on April 26.

Mr. Krishna Madiga said at a press conference on Thursday that the MRPS State committee would meet in Hyderabad on April 22 to decide the venue for the hunger strike. The district, mandal and village committees were free to choose their own modes of agitation for achieving categorisation.

"The State will be turned into a volcano if the Bill for categorisation was not introduced in Parliament by May 17. We are giving him (Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy) one month's notice," he said. Mr. Krishna Madiga said he had lost confidence in the words of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.