TJAC Co-Convener Quits In Protest Against Kodandaram

Alleging that TJAC Chairman M Kodandaram had insulted her severely, TJAC former leader Thanveer Sultana, with tears in her eyes, announced that she was tendering her resignation to the TJAC's co-convenor post.

Speaking to the media today along with other JAC rebel leaders Pittala Ravinder and Nallapu Prahlad, Sultana said that Kodandaram was in the post because of all the JAC activists. She wondered how long they would continue to stay in the JAC if leaders like her kept getting pulled up by Kodandaram.

Sultana said that there was no priority for women in the JAC, and that some of its leaders did not respect women at all. No leader who made women cry would last long, she claimed.

She was constrained to tender her resignation to the JAC post primarily due to the "dictatorial attitude" of Kodandaram, she said.

Lashing out at Kodandaram, Prahlad alleged that the former was functioning unilaterally. "We are dubbed as government agents when we question Kodandaram," he said, pointing out that he was a part of the Telangana movement since 1996 and was now having to hear allegations like that.

Reading out a litany of complaints against the TJAC Chairman, Prahlad alleged that Kodandaram was leaking the "decisions" to the media even before discussing them in the JAC, sharing the dais with those who stoutly opposed formation of Telangana State, and, while continuously insisting that he was against politics, engineering agitations along with political parties.

Pittala Ravinder said that when he had suggested some amendments to the JAC objectives in 2014, conspiracies to remove him from the JAC began. He alleged that Kodandaram was making his personal agenda that of the JAC, such as inciting students to participate in the unemployment rally. Alleging that Kodandaram was hobnobbing with the rivals of the TRS, he asked Kodandaram to clarify whether he had met AICC chief Sonia Gandhi or not.

Ravinder also alleged that Kodandaram had insulted the spirit of the Telangana movement, and warned him that he would be consigned in history as a destroyer of the Telangana society if he failed to mend his dictatorial attitude.