CPI Demands Repealing Telangana Agitation Cases

The CPI Telangana State Council demanded that Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya urge Railways to lift cases filed against agitators of the Telangana movement in 2014.

CPI State Secretary Chada Venkat Reddy addressed a letter to the union minister in which he said that leaders from all spheres in the society, including politicians, employees, people's JACs and others, had participated in the movement. Parties including TRS, CPI and BJP had taken up programs such as the Million March and Sagara Haram.

Several political leaders participated in Rail Roko agitation demanding to bifurcate united Andhra Pradesh. The South Central Railway already stopped all its services. The Railway police filed cases against the protesters, after which the Hyderabad Police had arrested and shifted them to the Osmania University PS.

Reddy pointed out that cases were filed against several ministers, MPs, MLAs and other prominent political leaders. Since the Railways had not withdrawn its cases even two years after the bifurcation, the litigants were making rounds around the court and were facing a lot of problems and inconvenience.

The CPI leader urged Dattatreya to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and help repeal the cases.