The Praja Rajyam chief, Chiranjeevi, has decided to resign his membership in the Assembly on Thursday to take up the cause of a united Andhra Pradesh even as Telangana agitators hit the streets again, attacking theatres screening films of his family members.
Sources said Chiranjeevi has decided that this is the right moment to wrest the leadership of the united Andhra Pradesh agitation. He will visit Tirupati on Friday to start the campaign against the division of the state.
Infuriated by Chiranjeevi’s stance, Telangana agitators forcibly stalled screenings of his nephew Allu Arjun’s Arya-2 and son Ramcharan Teja’s Magadheera in Hyderabad and other places on Wednesday.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti activists also vent their ire at cutouts of Junior NTR’s Adurs at Sairam theatre and those of Allu Arjun and Ramcharan Teja in Karimnagar.
Students of the joint action committee staged a dharna in front of the Praja Rajyam office at Jubilee Hills in the city, raising slogans against Chiranjeevi and warning him not to take a stance in favour of United Andhra.
In Warangal, irate students of the Kakatiya University decided to impose a ban on films starring Chiranjeevi family members including Allu Arjun, Ram Charan Teja, Allu Arvind, Pawan Kalyan.
On Wednesday, Kakatiya University JAC members including activists of ABVP and Telangana Graduates Association picketed Amrutha theatre in Hanamkonda, where Allu Arjun’s film was being screened.
They also stopped the screenings of Magadheera and Arya2 in Radhika and Sunil theatres respectively.
“Movies of all actors, directors or producers,who have taken an anti-Telangana stance would be banned in the city,” said Prof K. Venkatanarayana, president of the Telangana Eikya Vedika.
Meanwhile, activists of newly formed Telangana Youth Force took out a rally at Moosapet in the capital and burnt the effigy of Vijayawada MP, Mr L. Rajagopal, who has been vocally campaigning against the division of the state.
“There is a conspiracy to prevent separate statehood for Telangana,” said Mr M. Ajay of Telangana Youth Force.
“We will restart the agitation at full force to stop all efforts to water down the Telangana movement.”
In the wake of the renewed agitation, police has intensified patrolling in Hyderabad and sensitive districts of Telangana.
“After Chiranjeevi’s statement there were attacks on film theatres in Telangana,” said the Inspector General of Police, Ms A.R. Anuradha. “We are taking steps to prevent violence. The Prajar Rjyam office at Kamareddy was also damaged.”
In some parts of Telangana, agitators also raised slogans against the Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, for his united Andhra Pradesh stand.
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