TJAC plans Egypt-style protests to occupy roads
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If the proposed Telangana march takes place as scheduled on September 30, it will be a major challenge for the police as reports say the agitators may adopt a Egypt-type of protest and occupy the streets for days.
Moreover, the final day of the Ganesh immersion is on September 29, ending early on September 30. Police is apprehensive that the agitators in the guise of revellers may stay on at the Tank Bund and Necklace Road to participate in the march. The agitators have not revealed their plans or venue. This time, women and children are also going to be a part of the march.
Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee president V. Srinivas Goud said, “None of us visited Egypt. We got literature and CDs on the Egypt movement from those who visited India from Egypt. We will take up peaceful protest. If the state doesn’t oblige, we will repeat the Sakala Janula Samme, an indefinite strike.”
Marchers may try to block the city
A minister in the state government has said that he got information that the Telangana leaders went to Egypt to study the methods adopted there in the revolution last year. “This is a very disturbing factor that they will be staying for long days on the roads. We have been asking them to postpone the march in the wake of Cop-11,” he said.
Sources said the blueprint for the Telangana march and the venue is yet to be finalised. The TJAC has asked the state government to grant permission for the march on Tank Bund and Necklace Road, but the state police has decided not to permit the march. The agitators are also planning to march to the Hitech City area near the venue of the Cop-11, the international conference to be held in October, and the Outer Ring Road, thus effectively blocking Hyderabad. Telangana leader Swamy Goud promised “The march will be huge” but the venue was not yet been finalised.
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