The power sector employees in Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions) on Wednesday decided to continue their indefinite strike as talks between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and leaders of electricity employees’ Joint Action Committee have failed.
About 30,000 employees of power utilities in Seemandhra’s 13 districts stayed away from work, paralysing generation and transmission. Hospital and train services have been the worst-hit.
The protest has plunged several towns and hundreds of villages in darkness. Production in hundreds of industries also has come to a grinding halt.
NAIDU’S STRIKE ENTERS THIRD DAY
Meanwhile, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s indefinite hunger strike against the creation of a separate Telangana state entered the third day on Wednesday.
Naidu, who has been demanding talks with leaders of all regions of the state to find an amicable solution to the current turmoil, has said he would continue his agitation till justice is achieved.
Naidu had earlier accused Congress of playing a treacherous game with its nod for the creation of a separate Telangana state, and said the ruling party at the Centre rather than providing justice to all is indulging in such acts for political gain.
“Generally, in this kind of issues, nobody expects any political game. Here Sonia Gandhi and also the Congress Party want to make political gains out of it because of which they played all these games. If you go to Andhra Pradesh today, there is no power, there is no water, there is no transportation; people are suffering,” said Naidu.
“Generally, in this kind of issues, nobody expects any political game. Here Sonia Gandhi and also the Congress Party want to make political gains out of it because of which they played all these games. If you go to Andhra Pradesh today, there is no power, there is no water, there is no transportation; people are suffering,” said Naidu.
Naidu also alleged ‘political match-fixing’ between the YSR Congress Party and the Congress.
NO RETHINK ON BIFURCATION
Earlier, the Union government ruled out any rethink on bifurcating AP. Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has ruled out the possibility of imposing President's rule in Andhra Pradesh.
The Centre re-organised the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana. The number of members has been reduced from ten to seven.
Union Ministers A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Veerappa Moily and Jairam Ramesh are the new members of the GoM. Other members of the panel are Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Minister of State for Personnel and Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy.
Union Ministers A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Veerappa Moily and Jairam Ramesh are the new members of the GoM. Other members of the panel are Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Minister of State for Personnel and Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy.
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