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JAC launch 'bus yatra' to highlight separate Telangana cause

JAC members and cultural troupes would campaign about the need for separate Telangana agitation during the 'yatra', C Kodandaram, the convener, said after flagging it off.

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In the wake of the exit of ruling Congress and TDP, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) of TRS and various people's organisations is trying to strengthen itself by undertaking a 'yatra' for the statehood cause and putting in place an organisational structure.
        
C Kodandaram, the convener, is the only leader who so far had a post in the JAC but now leaders of various people's organisation have been named as office bearers.
       
Telangana non-gazetted officers (NGOs) Association leader K Swamy Goud would be the new convener of the JAC.
       
The JAC today launched a 'bus yatra' from here which would traverse across various Telagana districts for three days.
       
JAC members and cultural troupes would campaign about the need for separate Telangana agitation during the 'yatra', Kodandaram said after flagging it off.
       
"This 'yatra' is aimed at strengthening the Telangana movement by unifying all the outfits fighting for a separate statehood," he said.
       
Claiming that affluent sections in non-Telangana regions are obstructing the formation of Telangana, he said the 'yatra' would mobilise public opinion against such people.
       
Rejecting the JAC's directive to all Telangana public representatives to quit their posts to mount pressure on the Centre for the formation of separate state, the ruling Congress had walked out the committee.
       
The main opposition Telugu Desam had been expelled by the JAC for not complying with the decision to resign.
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