Advocates lead T movement

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Professionals, particularly lawyers, are taking the initiative in the ongoing separate Telangana movement.

Bar associations in the district are leading the agitation. For the last two months, advocates in Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Armoor, Yellareddy and Bodhan towns have been playing an active role in the separate Telangana movement. Seniors and lady advocates are also active.

On Monday, around 100 advocates from the district participated in a protest at Parliament. On par with the political joint action committee (JAC), advocates have also been organising several agitations for separate statehood.

The Nizamabad Bar Association conducted Satyanarayana vratham, and special prayers by Muslim advocates, seeking immediate carving out of a new state.

Advocates declared that they would extend free legal aid to Telangana agitators, and also extended moral support to students of the Telangana University (TU).

They are also in touch with the students JAC of Telangana University.

Speaking to this newspaper, senior advocate Takkar Hanmanth Reddy said that being intellectuals, advocates were extending their solidarity to the separate Telangana state movement.

He admitted that because of their involvement in the Telangana movement, court transactions had been affected.

Meanwhile, Kamareddy Bar Association members boycotted court on Monday and staged a rasta roko at Nizamsagar (Kistaiah) chowrasta.

Due to this, vehicular traffic on the Nizamabad-Hyderabad and Sircilla-Yellareddy routes was disrupted. The advocates raised slogans against the Congress government and demanded introduction of a separate Telangana bill in Parliament. Police reached the Nizamsagar crossroads and convinced the agitating advocates to call off the rasta roko.

T lawyers break Delhi cop cordon

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Hundreds of lawyers belonging to the Telangana Joint Action Committee assembled at Jantar Mantar in the national capital and demanded that the Bill a separate state be introduced in the ongoing Parliament session.

They were joined by the BJP leader, Mr Prakash Javadekar, and the expelled Samajwadi Party leader, Mr Amar Singh.

Later in the day, the lawyers hoodwinked the police and reached within 100 metres of the Parliament building before being arrested near the Parliament annexe. For almost 90 minutes, the protestors blocked the traffic in the area.

The lawyers later gheraoed the Union minister, Mr Jaipal Reddy, and demanded that he resign for Telangana statehood.

After their protest in the Parliament premises, the Telangana Congress MPs including Mr Ponnam Prabhakar, Mr G. Vivekanand and Mr Madhu Goud Yashki said they met the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and briefed him on the political situation.

“The PM said it is a serious situation and the government is working for a solution. He also expressed concern over the deaths of people during the agitation,” Mr Yaskhi said. The party spokesperson, Mr Abhishek Singhvi, said although the Congress considered the demand for a separate Telangana an important issue, there was no need for the President’s address to the joint session of Parliament to comment on each and every issue. “But that does not mean that the issue is off the table,” he said.