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Hyderabad
braces for Telangana million march
Wednesday March 09, 2011 06:17:20 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: The stage
is set for a possible showdown between police and Telangana
protagonists in Hyderabad Thursday as the Telangana Joint Action
Committee (TJAC) has vowed to go ahead with the million march
despite ban orders.
In an attempt to foil the march and to prevent people from
reaching Hyderabad, police in Telangana districts Wednesday took a
large number of activists into preventive custody.
As the police have denied permission to TJAC for the million
march, barricades have been put up in nine districts and on the
outskirts of Hyderabad to prevent activists joining the protest.
The TJAC, which comprises Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS),
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other groups fighting for
separate Telangana state, has decided to hold the march of a
million supporters to demand a bill in parliament for the creation
of the state.
Telangana leaders of the ruling Congress party and main opposition
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are backing the march.
The Telangana Praja Front of Maoist sympathiser Gaddar, students'
groups and lawyers' organisations have also announced support.
Police in Nizamabad, Warangal, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Medak and
other districts have arrested scores of TJAC activists heading to
Hyderabad to participate in the march.
Prohibitory orders banning the assembly of four or more persons
have been imposed in Hyderabad and Cyberabad police
commissionerates.
Additional forces, including the central paramilitary troops, were
deployed in the city to maintain law and order and provide
security to IT companies.
Police have also imposed traffic restrictions on Tank Bund, the
venue of the march, and surrounding areas.
As the state assembly is in session, security was also beefed up
at the assembly building and also at other vital installations.
Hyderabad police commissioner A.K. Khan told reporters that
permission was not given for the march as it would throw traffic
out of gear and cause inconvenience to people.
But the TJAC maintains that the march needs no permission as it
would be a peaceful programme.
It has already scaled down the march plans in view of the ongoing
intermediate examinations.
The organisers, who earlier planned to bring the city to a halt
through a day-long protest, now want to take out two rallies one
each from the Jubilee Bus Station and Sundarayya Vignana Kendra to
Tank Bund.
The protesters will stage a sit-in for three hours from 1 p.m. to
draw the attention of the central government to their demand.
TJAC chairman M. Kodandaram has condemned large-scale arrests in
the Telangana districts.
"People can protest in Egypt and Tunisia but not in Hyderabad," he
asked.
Andhra Pradesh High Court Tuesday declined to pass any orders to
stop the march.
On a petition by the organisers, the state human rights commission
Wednesday directed police not to violate human rights while taking
steps to foil the march.
A group of TDP legislators also met Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar
Reddy, urging him to ask police not to carry out arrests or
suppress the peaceful protest.
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