Jai Andhra movement for separate statehood revives in AP

Hyderabad, Dec 5 (PTI) The 'Jai Andhra' slogan is back.
As the struggle for a separate Telangana state is gathering
momentum, leaders who took part in the Jai Andhra movement way
back in the early 1970s have once again started raising the
slogan seeking a separate Andhra state.

First to raise the call for a separate state is the
current chairman of Andhra Pradesh (India's southern state)
Co-operative Central Bank and former Home Minister Vasantha
Nageswara Rao.
Former Member of Parliament and senior leader of Praja
Rajyam party (PRP) Chegondi Harirama Jogaiah also quit his
party to join the Jai Andhra movement.
In Vijayawada, activists performed 'ksheerabhishekam'
(pouring of milk) on the statue of late Kakani Venkata Ratnam,
the spearhead of the Jai Andhra movement, and raised slogans
demanding a separate Andhra state.
"When people of Telangana region want a separate state,
let Andhra Pradesh be divided amicably. We shall get separated
as good brothers without any misgivings or prejudices," Rao
said.
Jogaiah responded to Rao's call and said he was ready to
join the movement. He protested the PRP's stand supporting the
separate Telangana statehood demand.
"I can't work in PRP when it is supporting Telangana
state. Hence I have decided to quit and join the Jai Andhra
movement," Jogaiah said.
As of now, the leaders say no specific course of action
has been chalked out for taking the demand for separate state
forward. "We want to achieve Andhra state through peaceful
means. And we are mustering support for that," Rao said.(More)
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