As the Bharatiya Janata Party is gearing up to make the half-day visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi a grand success, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has stepped up its campaign to protest the visit.
The TRS has come up with “Modi Go Back” posters in different parts of Hyderabad and also in Ramagundam, where the Prime Minister is going to dedicate the Ramagunda Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (RFCL) to the nation on Saturday afternoon.
The TRS leaders have been holding press conferences for the last two days questioning the visit of Modi to launch the RFCL company, nearly two years after it commenced its production. The party also launched a Twitter war against Modi for doing injustice to the state.
At the same time, the TRS government is seeking the support of civil society organisations and intellectuals to attack Modi.
On Wednesday night, as many as 64 noted persons including academicians wrote an open letter to the PM demanding to clarify his stand on pending issues pertaining to Telangana.
They asked Modi about the pending issues of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act saying none of the promises, including a coach factory at Kazipet, a steel plant at Bayyaram, a tribal university and also incentives promised to industries setting up their units in the state, was kept.
The academicians questioned the Centre’s decision to scrap the Information Technology Investment Region promised to Telangana and then sanctioning 22 software technology parks to other States.
They pointed out that the union government did not allot any new national level educational institutions, medical colleges and even Navodaya Vidyalayas in the State.
They demanded that the Central government should either revive the ITIR or sanction a similar IT package to the State apart from establishing new software technology parks. They also wanted new national educational institutions in the State.
Remembering their contribution in achieving the Telangana State, the intellectuals wanted the union government to procure the paddy produced in the State without any discrimination.