Samajika JAC leader YK said that the organization would organize its proposed public meeting in Vijayawada aimed at extending solidarity to and felicitating controversial writer Kancha Ilaiah on October 27.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, YK said that the JAC had obtained permission to organize the meeting on October 27 at the Gymkhana Grounds of Vijayawada.
He alleged that the Arya-Vysya community had applied for permission to organize their meeting on the same day at the same place with an intention of disturbing Ilaiah's meeting. He warned that they would not keep quiet if the government obstructed the meeting in the name of law and order.
On the other hand, Arya-Vysya and Brahmin associations said that they would obstruct Ilaiah if the latter came to Vijayawada, and even resort to physical attacks if the Samajika JAC activists resorted to such attacks themselves. They asked the Samajika JAC how it could organize the Ilaiah Athmeeya Sabha after taking permission for a political meeting. They also said that they would organise a meeting of their own if the police gave permission for Ilaiah's meeting, and demanded that the police give permission for their meeting to be conducted at Kalyana Mandapam.
However, speaking to the media from Kurnool, TDP Rajya Sabha member T G Venkatesh said that his community would not obstruct Ilaiah's felicitation meeting. He said that his community would however not keep quiet till Ilaiah deleted the objectionable words against the Arya-Vysya community in his book Samajika Smugglarlu Komatollu. He said that all political parties, including the Communists, found fault with Ilaiah's book, and it was not correct for the Samajika JAC to felicitate Ilaiah.
Kanche Ilaiah himself declared that he would go to Vijayawada to attend the meeting organised by the Samajika JAC at any cost. He said that a message would go to the world that there was no freedom of expression in Andhra Pradesh if he was arrested. He also said that he had no objection that the police were ready to give permission to the Samajika JAC on any day other than October 28.