Hours before a mass protest across the Telangana region, a huge preparatory meeting held inAndhra Pradesh's Karimnagar district on Monday indicated how it might affect the general administration in the affected districts as around 7.5 lakh government employees geared up to take part in it.
Though the state government has been planning invoking Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) and arrest some Telangana-based employee union leaders to foil the strike, the employees of all grades decided to go on strike.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday appealed all sections of people to actively participate in the indefinite strike in support of a separate state which is scheduled to begin from Tuesday in the Telangana region.
Addressing a public meeting at SRR College ground here this evening, Rao said non-gazetted officers, gazetted officers, students, teachers, lecturers, advocates and others would participate in the strike. To achieve the long-pending goal of a separate state, it has become necessary to launch an indefinite stir in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, he said.
As part of the agitation, buses would not ply, trains would be stopped, coal would not be mined in Singareni and schools, colleges and offices would remain closed from Tuesday, the TRS chief said.
The meeting was jointly convened by the TRS, Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC), BJP and the CPI(ML), among other parties and organisations. TJAC chairman M. Kodandaram said justice would be done to the people of Telangana region only after it was granted statehood.
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