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Telangana students lose faith in politicos, to contest polls themselves
Having lost faith in political parties, including the Telangana Rastra Samithi, the agitating student leaders of Osmania University have decided to enter poll fray so as to carry their battle into the Assembly.
Having lost faith in political parties, including the Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS), the agitating student leaders of Osmania University have decided to enter poll fray so as to carry their battle into the Assembly.
The Student leaders on Tuesday indicated that they would contest all the twelve Assembly seats, vacated by MLAs belonging to TRS, Praja Rajyam Party ((PRP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to protest against the terms of reference of the Justice Srikrishna Committee looking into Telangana issue.
The students decision has come as a setback for the TRS (as all ten of its elected MLAs resigned), which recently announced that its candidates will re-contest the seats and it was responsibility of the students and other supporters of Telangana cause to get them elected.
Meanwhile the truncated Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) said it would stage protests across the region on March 4 and 5 to coincide with the Srikrishna Committee visit to Hyderabad.
"We believe that Srikrishna committee appointed by the Centre would only waste time instead of paving way for the formation of separate Telangana.
Hence, we appeal to the Telangana people to observe peaceful protests on March 4 and 5," JAC convener C Kodandaram said and added that the protest was not against the Srikrishna Committee but against the Centre's move of constituting the panel.
The JAC also demanded that the Board of Intermediate Education should take steps to see that the answer payers of Telangana Itermediate students were evaluated only in the Telangana region.
Kodandaram said that the examination papers of students of a particular region must be evaluated by the people of that region only, so that the students get justice.
