VIJAYAWADA: The row over the felicitation programme of Professor Kancha Ilaiah christened Sangheebhava Sabha in Gymkhana Grounds organised by Social JAC and the counter attack planned by Arya Vysya Brahmin Ikya JAC in the same venue watered down as both the parties held a peace meeting on Saturday. Representatives from both the parties attended the peace meeting held in the Press Club in Gandhinagar and later met police commissioner Gautam Sawang in his office. They promised Sawang that they will not disrupt law and order in the city in the name of caste and religious meetings and heated arguments over castes.
L Jaya Babu, Melam Bhagya Rao, CPI state secretary K Ramakrishna, CPI city secretary Donepudi Sankar and Pothula Suresh represented Social JAC while Jayanthi Venkateswarlu and G Gangadhar from Arya Vysya Brahmin Ikya Vedika JAC attended the meeting.
In the meeting, they came to a conclusion to put an end to the row and decided not to argue further over the book Komatollu Saamajika Smugglarlu written by Professor Kancha Ilaiah. Social JAC went ahead and further promised Vysya Community leaders that necessary modifications to the book will be proposed in the interest of Vysya community as it has hurt their sentiments. “One should not criticise or hurt the feelings of the individual or caste or any religion. A similar meeting will be conducted in the first week of November with Ilaiah to bring few modifications to the book as requested by Vysyas,” said CPI State secretary K Ramakrishna.
President of Arya Vysya Association Jayanthi Venkateswarlu said they decided to end the controversies by discussing the issue face to face rather than confronting. “Ilaiah promised us that he won’t talk about Vysya community in any meeting and further accepted to correct the book. Hence, we withdraw all our statements,” he said. Police commissioner Gautam Sawang thanked both the parties for conducting a meeting to solve the issue by dialogue rather than verbal encounters.
He further requested everyone to solve caste and religious issues with dialogue. “Very happy to see that both the parties displayed maturity. Thanks to them, we have been able to maintain law and order,” said Gautam Sawang.
Earlier in the day, Vijayawada cops took around 21 people from both Arya Vysya Sangam and Kancha Illiah group into preventive custody when they tried to create tension at Thummalapalli Kalakshetram. Tension also prevailed outside police control room for a while when three persons from Kurnool district staged a protest against Arya Vysyas in the afternoon. Cops immediately arrested them for violating prohibitory orders. Gautam Sawang maintained that section 144 of CrPC is still on.
Ilaiah booked for remarks against judges
Kancha Ilaiah, against whom several cases have been filed for making objectionable comments against Arya Vysyas in his book ‘Komatollu Saamajika Smaglarlu’, has landed in a fresh row with another case filed against him in Karimnagar one town police station for making ‘derogatory’ comments against judges, advocates and judiciary system in his book ‘Mana Thatvam’.
Local advocate Bethi Mahender Reddy filed the petition at first class Additional Judicial Magistrate court. The petitioner in his complaint alleged that Ilaiah insulted the judiciary system by differentiating between Brahmin, Baniya and Kshatriya judges and advocates. Based on the court’s direction, One town police registered cases against Ilaiah under sections 154 CrPc and 153-A, 499, 500, 501, 505 IPC sections. Though the case was registered on October 26, it was made public by the petitioner on Saturday.
