After his release from prison on bail on September 24, YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will be making his first public appearance at Samaikya Sankharavam, a meeting being organised by his party, at LB Stadium here on Saturday.
The YSRC hopes that the meeting will project Jagan Mohan Reddy as a messiah for the people of Seemandhra who have been fighting, without any political leadership, for retention of state’s unity.
After his release from jail, Jagan Mohan Reddy met the governor twice on the Samikayndhra issue and his leaders staged a dharna in front of the chief minister’s office at the Secratariat with the demand that Samaikyandhra resolution be moved in the Assembly before the state’s bifurcation resolution was referred to the House by the Centre.
TRS BLINKS: Police heaved a sigh of relief after TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao said that his party would ignore the meeting. Earlier, party leader KT Rama Rao had also said that his party was not attaching any importance to the meeting. “We are not taking any note of the public meeting,” he said.
The YSRC is holding the public meeting in Hyderabad to send a message to the Seemandhra region that it was the only party with true Samaikyandhra character and that it wanted Telangana and Seemandhra to remain as one state. The YSRC leaders have taken the public meeting as a prestige issue as its success, they believe, would establish Jagan Mohan Reddy as an undisputed leader in Seemandhra region. Several trains have been booked to ferry people to Hyderabad from Seemandhra region.
As the public meeting is being held on the Telangana soil against formation of Telangana state, the police are making elaborate security arrangements to deal with violence, if any. They are making security arrangements keeping in mind the trouble created by Telangana protesters when APNGOs held a similar public meeting at the stadium recently.
SECURITY: As far as security arrangements are concerned,the city police will deploy 1,800 policemen, 34 platoons of Andhra Pradesh Special Police (APSP) and 16 companies of central paramilitary forces in and around the stadium.
All entry doors will be opened into the stadium and there will be no restrictions on entry. Police asked YSRCP leaders to install some LED screens in and around the stadium to prevent stampede-like situations and enable people, who cannot find space inside, to watch from a distance. Police requested the activists to maintain restraint and leaders not to make provocative speeches as per court’s directions.
Police appealed to the public to avoid roads around LB Stadium as traffic snarls are likely. NTR Stadium, Necklace Road, Parade Ground, Exhibition Ground, Goshamahal, Petlaburj have been earmarked for parking of vehicles arriving from other places. The majority of the vehicles will be entering the city from the Kurnool and Vijayawada highways.