HYDERABAD: The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC), headed by Prof M Kodandaram, which has been picking holes in the policies of the state government by undertaking various programmes, has now expanded its battleground even to the virtual world.
In order to increase participation of people in its programmes, being undertaken against the policies of the government, the organisation has set up its own website, http://telanganajac.wixsite.com/tjac, besides intensifying its efforts to bring out a magazine to publicise the activities of the TJAC.
The organisation, which is already active on social media and is also using chatting messengers to create awareness among people, will henceforth keep all the reports compiled by it on issues such as farmers’ suicides and problems faced by various sections of people in its website for public consumption.
Kodandaram unveiled the website at the organisation’s headquarters in Nampally here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that despite the repressive measures being adopted by the government towards TJAC, the organisation would continue to fight for the sake of people within the purview of the constitution.
Continuing his tirade against the state government, Kodandaram took strong exception to the way government had denied permission to the TJAC’s proposed dharna in Hyderabad, recently, against new land bill.
“Repressive measures on democratic protests will do more harm to the government. Our organisation will continue to strive hard for achieving a better Telangana on all fronts,” he pointed out.
Professor Kodandaram said that being a people’s organisation, TJAC needs to interact with various political parties to undertake agitations on issues concerning people.
“We (TJAC) are working for the betterment of all sections of people. Hence, we need to meet various political parties and seek their support to undertake agitations to force the government to address the concerns of people. I don’t think that TJAC interacting with leaders belonging to opposition is any wrong,” he said.
The TJAC will hold ‘Vidya Parirakshana Yatra’ from January 7. The proposed yatra is aimed at making the state government drop its decision to allow private universities to set up their centres in the state, TJAC leader Nallapu Prahlad announced.