Activists of the Telangana Rahstra Samithi are staging a dharna and burning an effigy in front of the Skandagiri temple in Secunderabad, in response to
Swami Jayendra Saraswathi's opinions on the Telangana issue. The Skandagiri Murugan Temple in Padmarao Nagar is frequented by the Hindu pontiff.
The TRS is demanding that Jayendra Saraswathi take back his statements on the state staying united. Agitators at the venue say he is a religious leader and has no right to speak on the behalf of any particular region and hurting its people.
There were 300 students who had lost their lives in the fight for a separate state, and what answer would he give them, they asked, going on to accuse him of being a fake swami.
Jayendra Saraswathi immediately clarified that he was only talking about the benefits of staying united and that he never said there should not be a separate Telangana. He said his statements were only in reply to those who kept asking him what his opinion on the T issue was.