Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Andhra Pradesh has announced its support to special status to Andhra Pradesh. It expressed its full support by way of peaceful protest. District Organiser and State Secretary of JIH, AP, Muhammad Akbar Basha said that the special status to Andhra Pradesh is the “moral right of the people living here”.
He requested the Central Government to take immediate steps in this regard. He expressed his deep condolences towards the people of Andhra Pradesh who have committed suicides in this connection and appealed to one and all to go with a peaceful movement only instead of the sacrifices of their valuable lives.
In a protest march on 11 August, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, A.P. State Finance Secretary, Muhammad Dawood; members of SIO, GIO, JIH Women’s Wing, MDS, Welfare Party Leaders Muhammad Sadiq Mohiuddin, Muhammad Maqbool, and others participated.
The call for bandh and protest march was given by JIH and various other groups, including CPI in support of granting special status to Andhra Pradesh, as promised during the bifurcation last year. Congress activists along with YSR Congress and other Opposition parties also extended support to the bandh, and held rallies and other forms of protest at different places in the state.
The promise of special status was made to Seemandhra (new Andhra Pradesh) by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament during state bifurcation last year. The Opposition parties alleged that BJP and TDP, who share power at the Centre and AP, have gone back on the promise since they came to power one year ago. They charged that the government is not doing enough to realise the promise.
State-run Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) buses were confined to depots, though services were resumed at several places as the day progressed. Schools, colleges, shops and other commercial establishments remained closed at many places. No major untoward incident had been reported from anywhere in the state during the bandh.
Jammat Extends Support to Special Status to Andhra Pradesh
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Andhra Pradesh has announced its support to special status to Andhra Pradesh. It expressed its full support by way of peaceful protest. District Organiser and State Secretary of JIH, AP, Muhammad Akbar Basha said that the special status to Andhra Pradesh is the “moral right of the people living here”.
