Hyderabad, Oct 9: Balladeer Gaddar on Saturday said the agitation with which he is planning to achieve Telangana would be led by an 84-member steering committee.
The committee was elected at a meeting on Saturday which also elected Gaddar as president of Telangana Praja Front.
The meeting also elected an 84-member steering committee, which, Gaddar said, would lead the agitation.
Gaddar made it clear that the TPF was not a political party but a ‘political force’ and it would not commit the mistake of focusing on elections.
“We will agitate within the framework of our Constitution,” he said, deviating from his pro-Maoist stance of power through the barrel of the gun. “We will seek the support of all like-minded parties and will force the Centre to introduce a bill in ensuing winter session of Parliament in December.”
Gaddar gave enough indications that the TPF would not take part in elections as was done by other T-parties
A Maoist sympathiser who survived an attempt on his life, Gaddar had consistently opposed democratic form of elections but had kept away from underground activities for a long while.
“We want self respect, self-rule, and our resources,” he said. “The Congress government had cheated and betrayed people of Telangana. And the Opposition including the Telangana Rashtra Samiti has focused more on elections and ignored the movement thereby failing to achieve Telangana in the last 60 years.”He added that the Opposition could not force Congress to grant Telangana. “It cannot be achieved through elections, but only through agitation,’’ the balladeer reiterated.
“Under the Constitution, the state is a small colony,” he remarked. “The remote is in the hands of the Centre while the TV is in State. Centre operates through remote control. We had a series of agitations in the past 60 years but they failed because of the focus on polls. And the people suffered.”
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