Fast for united AP turns serious
Hyderabad/Anantapur/Kurnool, Dec. 18: The condition of Mr Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, brother of late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, deteriorated on Friday as his fast for united Andhra Pradesh entered the fourth day.
“He is a chronic bronchitis patient and he has developed serious respiratory problems since he was sleeping out in the cold for the past three days,” said Dr M. Sureshwara Reddy, RMO of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences.
He added that the senior leader, who is fasting in front of the Kadapa collectorate, had been put on nebuliser and might also need oxygen if his respiratory problem aggravated. “We have to monitor his health for the next 24 hours,” said Dr Sureshwara Reddy. “He may need hospitalisation.”
Leaders of various parties are also on fast-unto-death at 41 places in the state and around 250 relay hunger strike camps are also on. Among the fasting leaders are the Vijayawada MP, Mr L. Rajagopal and the Mylavaram MLA, Mr D. Umamaheswara Rao.
Meanwhile, situation turned tense at Anantapur when TD activists obstructed the police who arrested and shifted Ms Paritala Sunita, Mr Parthasarathy and Mr P. Raghunadha Reddy to the hospital.
At Proddutur too, police arrested former MLA Mr Varadarajulu Reddy, whose fast entered the fifth day, and shifted him to hospital. Angry Congress activists attacked the shops in the town. The IG, Ms A.R. Anuradha, said that leaders were being arrested and shifted to save their lives.
Police informed that 397 agitations took place on Friday in which 42,419 persons took part. There were road blockades at 60 places and 161 agitators were taken into preventive custody. Bandh was total in 23 towns and cities in Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.
There was tension in Anantapur when irate mob set ablaze the Railway Kalyanamandapam on First Road. However fire personnel managed to protect properties. Meanwhile, the state capital also remained tense following the re-arrest of four leaders of Telangana Joint Action Committee. The four, identified as Yerrolla Srinu, N. Kumaraswamy, V. Srinivas and B. Stalin, were arrested soon after their released from Chanchalaguda jail for their alleged involvement in violence at Punjagutta.
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Of course it may seem like political posturing, what after KCR the drama queen himself set this ball rolling. However, Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy's situation is quite grave. He is known widely to be a person of high integrity & no drama. He lives an ascetic life, catering to just about any issue that is brought to his attention, no matter how inconsequential the person requesting. If only we had a few more politicians like him, politics would not be a dirty word then.
Keeping AP united is the only solution, otherwise politicians like KCR will further try to divide each district. United Andhra is the way to continue the progress made in several decades. Otherwise KCR and team will try to divide each region, then each district and finally each neighbourhood.
This is all a show. All these politicians will eat and drink behind closed doors. Ppl are fools to think these despicable vermins will fast for any cause except their own political desires
Good riddance, I think this is the best way to get rid of these dirty rotten politicians.
One state as a whole has been at a standstill for about 20 days. What were the state and central governments doing? Both the state & central governments should be dissolved immediately.
From a distance, in my view, this is a political drama in dividing a prosporus state like AP. With my father's job we lived in both Karimnagar and Anantapur and I can say the quality of life was pretty much the same. More to it, now I heard Naxals are supporting the Telangana moment. I wish people won't support this division. Learn from the examples of smaller states.
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