TJAC plays cat and mouse with cops, shifts stir venue

Sep 24, 2012 - daya raghunathan |

Hyderabad

Tags:

The venue for the September 30 Chalo Hyderabad march has been shifted from Tank Bund to Jubilee Hills checkpost, the Telangana Joint Action Committee has said. The march will take place as planned on September 30 despite Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s request to postpone it in view of the upcoming international biodiversity meet, COP-11 from October 1 and the Ganesh nimajjanam on September 29.

TJAC co-convenor T. Sri Ranga Rao told this newspaper that the venue of the march had been shifted from Tank Bund-Necklace Road to Jubilee Hills checkpost, in view of the Ganesh immersion procession that will still be going on on September 30. He said that they were expecting over five lakh participants to come to the city from nearly 10 districts a day before the march. They will stay put in the city until statehood is declared, he said.

The TJAC plans to take advantage of CoP-11 to promote its agenda. Mr Rao said booklets on Telangana will be distributed to the delegates. “We want the delegates to know that the Centre and state government have deliberately tried to eliminate Telangana culture, from Hyderabad. When the delegates discuss ‘diversity’ we want them to ponder on Telangana too.”

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/190922" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-49046f5655178ce14c4d7ebc2b472780" value="form-49046f5655178ce14c4d7ebc2b472780" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80642785" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>