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RTC JAC seeks people's support for November 18 'Sadak Bandh'
After the ‘Chalo Tank Bund’, TSRTC workers will organise 'Sadak Bandh' on November 18 to protest against the government.
Hyderabad: After the 'Chalo Tank Bund', TSRTC workers will organise 'Sadak Bandh' on November 18 to protest against the government. RTC workers urged the people to support their protest programme for their just demand.
TSRTC workers took up 'Kavi Sammelanam' on the theme 'Kannilla Muchatlu' as per their action plan even as the strike entered 39th day on Tuesday.
The RTC JAC has decided to lodge a complaint with the Human Rights Commission against the police lathi charge in which several workers were injured. The JAC would submit the commission photos regarding the attack on the workers by the police.
JAC co-convener K Raji Reddy asked the RTC workers to send photographs of the lathi charge with details so those can be submitted to the Commission. He said that the RTC workers would take up their next protest programme of 'Sadak Bandh' more strongly with the support of all sections of society.
A round table meeting organised on the RTC issues on Tuesday where the weaker sections pledged support to the call given by the TSRTC JAC. The Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) pledged support to the TSRTC workers action plan and sought support of all sections of society.
MRPS chief Manda Krishna Madiga said that since the TSRTC workers are mostly from weaker sections like SCs, STs, BCs and minorities and even the commuters are also from the weaker sections, society should support the cause of RTC workers. The MRPS leader said that his organisation would also announce an action plan in support of the TSRTC workers.
Apart from supporting 'Sadak Bandh', the MRPS would take up Maha Dharna at Indira Park on November 17 and meet Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on November 20. He further said that there would be a march to Hyderabad with one to ten lakh people.
"The Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is going ahead with his plans to privatise TSRTC and its properties and he is using the workers' strike as an excuse. If lakhs of people come onto the roads the government will listen," said Manda Krishna, adding they would announce the action plan on November 20.
Justice B Chandra Kumar criticised the government for not solving the RTC issue even as the workers were suffering for the last two and half months. MLC Ramulu Naik lashed out at the TRS chief for his stand on the RTC workers issue.
Naik said, KCR was seen like a god during the Telangana agitation but now he is seen like a devil. "Even Ministers have no self respect and they have to sit if the CM asks them to sit and stand if he asks them to stand.
This is the reason why I have left TRS. The four years time I spent in TRS after formation of Telangana was like 40 years," said Naik.
