Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Ajit Singh today expressed confidence that persistent efforts of Telangana supporters including students would definitely result in realising the goal of separate statehood.
Speaking at a pro-Telangana meeting organised at the Osmania University, Ajit Singh, a supporter of a separate Telangana, exhorted the students to keep their agitation peaceful adding political process is the only way to achieve any goals in a democracy.
All groups and parties fighting for separate Telangana should unite to achieve their goal, he suggested.
Supporting the demand that the separate Telangana should have Hyderabad as its capital, Singh said metro cities like Mumbai and Kolkata are part of Maharashtra and West Bengal respectively though they had substantial population other than the native people.
Hyderabad would, after all, continue to be part of India even if separate Telangana is formed, he said.
Claiming that the Centre was perhaps hoping the separate statehood agitation would die down with time, he observed that the Telangana stir would not subside.
He was speaking at a meeting of the ‘Telangana Consultative Committee’ which favours bringing all those fighting for separate statehood on to one platform.
Freedom fighter and Telangana supporter Konda Lakshman Bapuji, MLC K Dileep Kumar and others stressed the need for keeping the separate statehood agitation going. [PTI]