Telangana Joint Action Committee chairman M. Kodandaram’s public meetings as part of the fifth leg of his ‘Amara Veerula Spoorthi Yatra’ in the undivided Adilabad district are a throwback to the separate Telangana movement. Only, the crowds have thinned as was evident at Boath and Adilabad district headquarters town.
His speeches however, are as incisive as they used to be during the peak of the movement about three years back. He has so far shown no mercy when criticising the TRS government for its ‘failure’ in achieving a social Telangana.
The JAC chairman is covering about eight places every day, as he did on the second day of the current leg of his yatra on Sunday. The convoy of 8 to 10 vehicles looked longer thanks to the 4 or 5 police vehicles, which are accompanying it, giving an inkling of the kind of ‘security’ which has been provided to the Yatra.
Mr. Kodandaram is meeting various sections of the society and is being given representations on small problems which the Government apparently failed to take care of. Listing out such problems, he told a gathering at Adilabad that the Government failed to sanction a degree college at Boath and Ichoda. At the same meeting, the JAC chairman met a couple of widows of farmers who had committed suicide in January and February. “The condition of these widows is pathetic as they have not been given the ₹6 lakh towards compensation,” he lamented. The thrust of his speeches remained on failure of the Government to initiate recruitment process so that a promise made during elections to the unemployed and their parents gets fulfilled. He said that 2 lakh posts were lying vacant but the Government failed to recruit through the District Selection Committee.
Mr. Kodandaram also touched upon the Nerella incident which has its genesis in sand mining. “I was told that the illegal mining was being done by relatives of the Chief Minister himself,” he pointed out.
While the meeting at Adilabad was presided over by Adilabad district TJAC chairman Durgam Rajeshwar, representatives of CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML), Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika and those of TJAC from other districts also participated among others.