Sunday, June 19, 2011

Telengana Tangle: Telangana activists organise novel protest, cook on streets!

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PTI / The Hindu. 

TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao with his wife tries his hand during
TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao with his wife tries his hand during "Hyderabad Cooks on Road" agitation by Telangana activists in Hyderabad on Sunday. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf - The Hindu.

Stepping up pressure on the UPA Government, pro-Telangana supporters today undertook a novel protest by organising collective cooking programmes at key traffic junctions here and threatened to intensify the stir if their demand is not met.

“It is a practice to conduct collective cooking and community lunches in open areas in Telangana during the monsoon. We have converted this into a form of protest to express our demand for separate statehood,” Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) Convener M. Kodandaram told reporters at the Gun Park in front of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly building here.

During the protest named ‘Hyderabad Cooks on Roads’, activists of TRS and the JAC cooked food on streets at various important places in Hyderabad.

Will Congress, ever, declare its final stand on the demand for separate Telengana State?


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