In a marked departure from the assurances regularly given to people from Seemandhra on their safety, Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Tuesday said that leaders and employees who do not support the separate statehood demand must leave the region.
Kavitha was speaking to media persons after releasing posters that read 'Jai Telangana or Quit Telangana' at the Martyrs Memorial at Gun Park. She threatened Seemandhra leaders and employees living in Hyderabad to raise the 'Jai Telangana' slogan in support of separate Telangana statehood.
The Telangana Jagruthi chief also added that those Seemandhra leaders and employees who failed to do so would have to leave Telangana and return to "their" regions.
Pointing out that the Telangana agitation has been organised "peacefully so far", Kavitha did a volte face when she alleged that the 'Quit Telangana' decision was taken as many Seemandhra leaders and employees were blocking the formation of the state, also threatening to demonstrate in front of their residences, from the 9th to the 15th of August.
Expressing confidence that the Telangana employees would not bow down to the government's decision to invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA), Kavitha said the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Telangana Political Joint action Committee have extended their full support to the employees' general strike which is to start from August 17.
She also released a poster on the Telangana Employees' General strike at the Gun Park, and pasted posters on some buses. (INN)