The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telangana Congress announced that they would extend their support to the TJAC's proposed Koluvulakai Kotlata ("Fight For Jobs") meeting to be held at the Saroor Nagar Stadium on December 4.
TJAC chairman M Kodandaram met the BJP state president Dr K Laxman at the BJP office in Hyderabad on Friday. Later, speaking to the media, Kodandaram said that Laxman would attend the Koluvulakai Kotlata rally / meeting. He lamented that conducting a public meeting in Hyderabad had become a Herculean task given all the suppressive conditions prevailing in the city now.
Speaking on the occasion, Laxman made it clear that the BJP would not join hands with the TRS in the next elections. He said that the local leaders had got clarity on the alliances issue after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state. He also said that Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah would tour the state after the Gujarat elections.
Later, Kodandaram and other leaders also met Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President N Uttam Kumar Reddy seeking his support for Koluvulakai Kotlaata, and he, too, announced the support of his party for the TJAC, as also for all other groups fighting for the cause of the unemployed youth.
Speaking to media persons after Kodandaram met him at Gandhi Bhavan, Reddy said that hundreds of youth had laid down their lives for the statehood cause and lakhs of students had risked their careers for it. The TRS had come to power promising one job for each family, but even after three-and-half years, the TRS government had failed to honour the commitment it had made, he alleged. He demanded that the TRS government immediately fill the over two lakh vacancies in various government departments.