Fast forces govt to lift cases against AP students

Updated on: Thursday, December 30, 2010

It now appears as a well-coordinated move of the Congress aimed at stealing the ‘Telangana’ thunder from the TRS: The region’s Congress MPs sit on an indefinite fast on Monday demanding the withdrawal of all cases lodged against students in connection with the state-wide agitation since last year. And the N Kiran Kumar Reddy government obliges the very next day.

The indefinite fast by nine Congress MPs lasted less than 30 hours. At the stroke of 4 pm on Tuesday, a few Telangana ministers – led by home minister Sabita Indira Reddy – walked into the New MLA quarters in Adarshnagar and announced to the fasting MPs that all 1,667 cases registered against 8,047 students of all the three regions will be lifted immediately.

Among these were 967 serious cases about which the state said it would approach the courts and get them settled. A few minutes later, the MPs ended their fast and celebrated their ‘victory’. Sensing that the Congress had outwitted him this time around, TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) rushed to the fasting venue late in the afternoon along with his son and MLA K Taraka Rama Rao and expressed his solidarity with them.

KCR said the leaders from the Telangana region would wage a united battle till they achieved the Telangana state.

Fast forces govt to lift cases against AP students

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