HYDERABAD: Dashing all hopes of an early end to the 20-day-old Sakala Janula Samme, TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao said on Sunday that the strike would go on till such time the Centre began the process for formation of Telangana state. Breaking his mouna deeksha for a while at the Raj Ghat in Delhi, Rao said: “The strike will continue and no one can stop it. The only way to end it is to form Telangana state.”Chandrasekhara Rao, along with TJAC chairman M Kodandaram and employee leaders and wearing Gandhi caps, went on a mouna deeksha (vow of silence) to send a message from the Raj Ghat on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi that they were demanding creation of a separate state.Rao claimed that they had, inspired by Gandhiji’s path of non-violence, led the Telangana movement for the last eleven and a half years without allowing it to turn violent, and asserted that the agitation would remain peaceful.But he said he was very much upset that the Congress was converting the serious wish of more than four and a half crore people of Telangana into some kind of tamasha.“How long can this tamasha go on? How many youths have to die? In the last two days, as many youths ended their lives and how many more deaths the Congress want to see?” he asked, advising the Congress not to play with the lives of innocent youths of Telangana.He said that no one in Telangana would heed the advice of AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad that the strike be called off.“The people are on strike. When they themselves are on strike, where is the question of life being affected? They are braving difficulties and are on strike only to see that their wish is fulfilled.”He said people in Telangana had had enough of talks and consultations.“How long do you want to continue talks? You have been doing this exercise for the last eleven years. Was it not enough time for you?” he asked.The Congress leaders might be saying something and doing something else but the UPA had promised Telangana in Parliament on December 10, 2009.“Parliament is the highest sovereign body. On the floor of the House was the promise made. How can you go back on it? If you go back on it, will it be not negation of the spirit of democracy?” the MP asked.He said the Samme paralysed the administration in the entire Telangana and yet the Centre remained unmoved, and made it clear that he and Kodandaram would lead a 40- member delegation to prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday and would ask him to take steps for creation of a separate state.Though he did not expect anything other than what had already been stated on the issue he would nonetheless bring to Singh’s notice the wish of the people since he is the highest executive authority in the country.“We will not be satisfied with promises. We want action,” Chandrasekhara Rao said.
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