In a show of sarcasm, protesting Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana Agitation Committee on Sunday garlanded and then submitted a memorandum to the statue of the first prime minister of independent India, Jawahar Lal Nehru, on the occasion of his birth anniversary at the busy Abids centre.
The symbolic protest was aimed at invoking Nehru to act against the indifferent attitude of central and state Government over the formation of separate Telangana state.
The protestors then raised slogans against the central and state governments, and staged a dharna in front of the statue. They then formed a human chain throwing the traffic out of gear.
The activists demanded the introduction of a bill on separate Telangana state in the winter session of Parliament to carve out a separate state from united Andhra Pradesh.
The protestors stated that if the government introduced the bill in Parliament, the BJP would extend unconditional support to it, and also see that it was passed smoothly.
The leaders stated that they sought an immediate divorce of Telangana from Seemandhra, and expressed the hope that a separate state would materialize by the new year 2011.