Oct. 5: Small political parties and caste organisations have decided to shift their loyalty from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS)-supported Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) to the newly-created Telangana Praja Front (TPF) outfit of balladeer Gadar, who attended a steering committee meeting at TNGOs Bhavan in Hanamkonda on Tuesday evening.
While the balladeer was critical of TRS for ‘being a party having sight on polls and not on the Telangana movement’, those attending the meeting said TPF is a common platform for SC, ST, BC, minority organisations, including those outfits which follow the principles of Dr Ambedkar and Phule. “Agitation is the right way that would lead to separate Telangana and not through elections,” the balladeer said, while criticising political parties, including TRS, for ‘exploiting Telangana sentiment for electoral victories since 1969’.
Conspicuously, members of the original Warangal unit of TJAC, which is led by Prof. T. Papi Reddy in Warangal, were absent during the meeting. “For us, Gadar is more trustworthy than the TRS chief, so we would want him to lead the movement,” said D. Suresh, president, Dalit Sena.
G. Ramchandra, Warangal unit president of Lok Janshakti Party, also echoed it. “A leader should be from the masses,” he said, while blaming the TRS for denying political representation to marginalised communities in either the TJAC or TRS. P. Kommalu, a JAC member of Atmakur mandal and an activist of Telangana Rashtra Communist Party (TRCP), a breakaway group of CPI(M), said that TRCP members of Narsempet, Mulug, Warangal and Parkal would extend their support to Gadar's outfit. Criticising the TJAC led by Professor M. Kodandaram as controlled by upper castes, K. Praksham, general secretary and founder of Telangana Mala Mahanadu said, “Though Malas have differences with MRPS, on the issue of extending support to Gadar's outfit, we share the same opinion.”
Significantly, Jaisingh Rathod, Telangana Tribal JAC state convenor, said that mandal-level JAC members could support any political outfit as they are not affiliated to TRS. “All followers of Jyotiba Phule and Dr Ambedkar would follow in the footsteps of Gadar,” opined Bodapalli Murali, district president, Telangana Bahujan Students’ Federation. .
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