Women descend on city for Samaikyandhra

Vijayawada:Thousands of women and young girls descended on Vijayawada city on Friday in support of Samaikyandhra raising slogans against the division of the State. They took out an impressive rally from the Indira Gandhi Municipal Corporation Stadium on MG Road and held a first-ever conclave of the fair sex for a common cause.

Speakers one after the other at the Mahila Garjana, most of them women, appealed to the fellow-women to come out of their homes and join the stir to stop the division of the State. The speakers have tried to impress upon the fellow-women that it would possible only for them to stop cutting Telugu Thalli into pieces for political gains.The popular woman speaker and social activist, P Satyavani, took a dig at the Congress leaders for falling at the feet of Sonia Gandhi though the State is set for division.

Stating that Indian women respect the daughter-in-law, she pointed out that the people have respected Sonia Gandhi. Everyone felt that Sonia would act as a mother in treating the people of every State. However, being a foreigner, Sonia Gandhi did not act as true Indian mother and brought division among the warring brothers in Andhra Pradesh.

She wondered why the Congress ministers were still hanging on to their posts even as lakhs of people in Seemandhra were on the streets for more than a month. She blamed the Union Minister K Chiranjeevi for being silent to the protests of the people of Tirupati. She said that Chiranjeevi had promised several things and had criticised the Congress during the 2009 elections but had merged his party to become a minister in Delhi. “We expected him to act as megastar and lead us like Mutha Mestry,” she said as the women responded with claps and slogans.

Satyavani also thanked the Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for giving the people of Seemandhra to come together and show their strength. She asked the women and youth to take lead and continue the fight till the Central government withdrew the decision on division of the State. She also felt the need to organise a similar event in Delhi to wake up the leaders from their sleep. The Krishna Joint Action Committee chairman, A V Sagar, said that people in Seemandhra were facing several difficulties due to the indefinite strike.

However, they were cooperating with the JAC and were making every protest a great success. He said majority of the people were worried about the future of younger generations if the State is divided.

The student JAC chairman Devineni Avinash, the APSRTC women JAC convener, G Bhavani, Doctors JAC leader Dr Vellanki Sridevi, the APNGOs women JAC convener, Annapurnadevi, former mayors of Vijayawada city, Mallika Begum, M V Rathna Bindu and Tadi Sakunthala were present.