AP: Employees’ organisations that are on strike protesting the division of Andhra Pradesh on Monday decided to step up the agitation as the High Court deferred its verdict on the legality of the strike to Tuesday.
The Joint Action Committee for united state comprising about 150 employees’ and social organisations chalked out an action plan including a bandh in 13 districts of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema on September 24. On the same day all the National Highways in the region will also be blocked.
Briefing mediapersons on their plan of action, APNGOs president P. Ashok Babu said agitators would lay siege to all Central government offices and banks on September 19 and 20. The JAC appealed to the people in the 13 districts to switch off power between 6 pm and 8 pm on September 21 followed by closure of all educational institutions between September 23 and 30.
Private buses will be stopped
Private buses would be stopped on September 25 and 26 and they would lay siege to Central government offices and banks again on September 27 and 28.
Private buses will be stopped
Private buses would be stopped on September 25 and 26 and they would lay siege to Central government offices and banks again on September 27 and 28.
Ashok Babu said it had also been decided to get unanimous resolutions passed by all gram panchayats demanding status quo which would be sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Public meetings would be held at Vijayawada on Septe-mber 20, Hindupur on September 23 and at Kurnool on September 29.
The JAC decided that an exclusive office and staff would be put in place for carrying out its activities and that a contingent of employee leaders would go to New Delhi to meet national leaders to reiterate their appeal to keep the state united.
Ashok Babu denied reports that RTC workers would call off the strike and said that they had assured to continue the strike till the APNGOs called it off. He also ridiculed Union ministers from Seema-ndhra for announcing that people were not demanding their resignations.
“They would know people’s reaction to such statements if they went to their respective constituencies,” he said.
The APNGOs leader, however, said that the JAC would not press for the resignations of elected representatives at this stage and instead would demand that they should vote against the Reorganisation Bill and stop the division process.
The JAC leaders will also meet MLAs and MPs from Telangana and request them to defeat the Bill by voting according to their conscience.
source: DC
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