Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee. India

Ms. Sonia Gandhi! Respect the popular demand of Telangana people
Central government should take immediate steps for the formation of Telangana State

Letter to Sonia Gandhi from Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee

Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee wrote a letter and sent it by fax to Ms Sonia Gandhi by strongly condemning the attitude of Central Government on Separate Telangana State. In this letter Mr Lateef Mohd Khan the General Secretary CLMC has written that the people of Telangana are on General strike for the past 16 days. This is the strike of common people for the formation of Telangana state, which is a democratic demand and determination of a common man.

In past your government accepted the demand and announced the formation of separate Telangana state. But it is a matter of deep concern that your government has taken back track from its promise. Because of this the sentiments of common people have been badly hurt. It can be understood by the fact that nearly Seven hundred people have scarified their lives. Lakhs of government employees are on strike without caring for their jobs and salaries. They are even celebrating the Telangana festival Dussera without their salaries. Schools, offices, buses and every thing is closed. Normal life has been paralyzed. Your government has remained just for the namesake and that too working on the gun point. Now police is ruling, human rights have been greatly shattered, civil liberties of the people have been curbed. Telangana activists and leaders have been targeted by brutal attacks.

To crush the great movement all kinds of measures have been taken by the government which can be named as undemocratic and unconstitutionally. Condition is so worst that even Ministers and MLA’s of your government from Telangana region are being arrested. It is a matter of shock that even after knowing all these facts you have become silent spectator. Until now general strike is underway in a peaceful manner but now patience is going to cross its limits. And by 1st of October when the government servants will not get their salaries, their patience will be busted, and people will come out on the street, the general strike will get violent and this state will enter into civil war. Finally the time will come when the whole situation will be out of control. Therefore, before the time slips from your hands you must awake yourself and open your mouth and come forward for the popular demand of people of Telangana which is nothing but separate Telangana statehood. If you consider of vote bank politics and pressure political class then it will be like burning your house with your own hands. I once again want to remind you a fact that Telangana state is the birth right of Telangana people.

Lateef Mohd Khan
General Secretary