Samiti plans to involve varsity students in Special Category Status stir

Guntur: Pratyekahoda Sadhana Samiti leaders have decided to intensify the agitation to mount pressure on the Centre for Special Category Status (SCS).

The Samiti leaders met at Sri Venkateswara Vignana Mandir here on Thursday also decided to involve varsity students in the agitation and set up district-level committees for Samiti to make agitation a grand success.

Addressing the gathering, CPI state secretary K Ramakrishna stressed on the need for united struggle to get SCS to AP and warned the Centre that if it did not change the allocations in the Budget and do justice to the AP, the left parties would intensify their agitation and protests in Parliament.

CPM state secretary P Madhu alleged the BJP-TDP cheated the people of state once again and said they will continue the fight till the Centre accord SCS and do justice to AP. 

Stating that the development would be possible only with the SCS, Madhu sought the cooperation of like-minded parties and people's organisations for the same.

PCC president N Raghuveera Reddy said the Congress would stage a protest in front of Parliament on March 5 and lay siege to Parliament on March 8. He recalled that the Congress party had already assured the state on the SCS and if it comes to power it will accord the SCS to AP. He sought the cooperation of all political parties to make proposed programmes a grand success. 

YSRCP leader in the Legislative Council Ummareddy Venkateswarlu criticised the BJP-TDP for having no commitment on the development of state. To generate employment opportunities for youth, he said there was greater need to get the SCS.

Pratyekahoda Sadhana Samiti convener Chalasani Srinivas stressed on need to involve university students and form students JAC to make their agitation grand success.  

Film actor K Sivaji said if the SCS was accorded, more entrepreneurs will come to AP to set up their industrial units. He found fault with Governor E S L Narasimhan for not taking initiative to distribute assets between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.