Decks have been cleared for the conduct of the “mother of all public meetings” by the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi at Kongara Kalan village on the outskirts of Hyderabad on September 2.
The Hyderabad High court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by an advocate and president of Environmental Protection Committee Pujari Sridhar seeking orders against holding of Pragati Nivendana Sabha (Meeting to present progress report of the TRS government).
Before dismissing the petition, the court sought an explanation from the government which promised to hold the meeting without causing any harm to the environment.
"The government has completed all the arrangements for the public meeting and will promise to organise the event without provoking any damage," said the government advocate general.
The court did not take much time in dismissing the petition, as it agreed with the assurance given by the government.
Sridhar pointed out that the meeting of such a magnitude would cause immense harm to public health and ecological imbalance.
He alleged that the ruling TRS leaders were spending hundreds of crores for political gains.
He said if the government wanted to present their four years of progress report to the people, they can promote it through social media using the technology instead of causing inconvenience to the people.
Sridhar also pointed out that the government had been rejecting permission to people to hold protest demonstrations at Dharna Chowk in small numbers to give vent to their grievances on the pretext of traffic jams and environmental pollution.
“But the same ruling party is indulging in massive misuse of power by mobilising lakhs of people using thousands of vehicles,” he alleged.