HYDERABAD: Demanding introduction of a bill during the current session of Parliament facilitating categorisation of Scheduled Castes, the Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS) has decided to make out all-out efforts to make Statewide bandh Monday success.
The MRPS wants the chief minister to take personal interest in ensuring that the bill is introduced in Parliament.
It has appealed to people to extend their support by closing all private establishments and educational institutes voluntarily and also requested all government employees to boycott their duties Monday for ``a noble cause’’.
MRPS founder-president Manda Krishna Madiga went on an indefinite hunger strike here on Dec 15 but was admitted to Gandhi Hospital on Saturday following deterioration in his health condition. Later he was shifted to a private hospital at Ramnager where he told reporters that that Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy should leave for New Delhi immediately and mount pressure on the Centre to introduce the categorisation bill by December 23 when the current Parliament session will conclude.
``We are losing patience since none of the promises made by the chief minister has been kept. if he does not act on his promises he will lose his credibility. If the bill is not introduced within two days, we will intensify our agitation. The chief minister and the Congress will have to pay a heavy price in the ensuing elections,’’ he warned.
On the bandh day the MRPS would organise dharnas and rasta-rokos, he said.