JAC raises stir to next level

Hyderabad: With no positive indication from the government on holding talks to resolve their charter of demands, Telangana RTC JAC on Sunday decided to intensify their stir by organising series of agitational programmes in the next 10 days.

The conduct of 'Sakala Janula Samarabheri' with 5 lakh people on October 30, and lay siege to all national highways and busy roads on October 25 were part of the agitations to be launched by the Joint Action Committee.

The JAC led by Committee Convenor Ashwathama Reddy held an all-party meeting attended by Congress senior leader VH Hanumantha Rao, TDP Telangana unit president L Ramana, Telangana Jana Samiti president M Kodandaram, CPM state secretary T Veerabhadram and others in Hyderabad. All the parties resolved to join actively the second phase struggle being launched by JAC from Monday onwards.

The party leaders also decided to make the proposed Samarabheri a big success by mobilising huge crowds.

Ashwathama Reddy said that the venue for the conduct of the big meeting – samarabheri will be decided this week.

As part of the 10-day action plan to intensify the struggle, the RTC workers will hold protest demonstrations with family members at all bus depots on October 21.

On October 22, the RTC workers will meet all temporary drivers and conductors personally and make a plea them to boycott their duties.

On the next day, the JAC leaders will call on all elected peoples' representatives mainly MPs, MLCs and MLAs and seek their support to address the RTC workers' demands. On October 24, the women conductors will stage a sit-in at all depots.

The agitating RTC workers are planning to lay siege to all national highways and state roads on October 25 and block the movement of all vehicles in the state.

Reddy said that the objective behind organising raska roko is to make the RTC strike a national issue. On October 26, all the striking workers accompanied by their children will sit before the RTC offices and depots for a whole day.

The JAC leader and all-party leaders demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to resolve the issues by inviting them for talks.

They appealed the temporary drivers and conductors stop attending duties in the interest of the corporation employees and thanked the students unions of the Osmania University for their fight in support of the RTC.