KAKINADA: Kapu community patriarch Mudragada Padmanabham, whose proposed Satyagraha Padayatra was thwarted last month, unveiled his next course of action on Friday and appeared intent on piling up the pressure on the State government to include Kapus among the Backward Classes.
Addressing a press conference, Mudragada said this time, his protest would be spread statewide and will be conducted in four phases, beginning December 18. It will end on January 25, on the eve of Republic Day. Resuming from where he had left off last month, the Kapu leader announced that the latest agitation will begin with a padayatra from Ravulapalem and end at Antarvedi.
The action plan was finalised at a meeting of the Kapu Joint Action Committee leaders from all the 13 districts at the residence of JAC leader Vasireddy Yesudasu here. After the meeting, Padmanabham said Kapu reservation movement will begin on December 18 with the community activists sporting black ribbions and hitting steel plates with large spoons.
Again on January 9, across the State, Kapu reservation movement cadres and leaders will hold candle light vigils. Then, in the last phase of this agitation, Mudragada and other leaders will start the Satyagraha Padayatra from Ravulapalem to Antarvedi on January 25.
“We are not demanding anything other than what the TDP government and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naiud had promised in the run up to elections in 2014,” Mudragada declared.