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Telangana leaders discuss ways to step up agitation
Ways to intensify the agitation for Telangana state, including TRS's call for an indefinite bandh, were on Friday discussed at a meeting here of leaders from the region.
Ways to intensify the agitation for Telangana state, including TRS's call for an indefinite bandh, were on Friday discussed at a meeting here of leaders from the region.
At the first meeting of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), formed on Thursday, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is understood to have mooted a proposal to fix a deadline for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
The closed-door meeting of leaders belonging to TRS and other outfits decided to continue the movement peacefully, TRS sources said.
Telegu Desam, which had attended the inaugural meeting of the JAC, stayed away from today's meet in the wake of an attack on a senior party leader in Osmania university yesterday.
"There is no bandh tomorrow. We appeal to the people to hold peaceful protests as they deem fit. We will speak to all political parties and form a committee.
As per the recommendations of that committee, we will go ahead with the agitation," senior Congress MLA R Damodar Reddy told reporters here.
The future course of action will be decided by taking stock of the situation in the state and at the Centre, he said.
