Even as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy awaits his salary for February, the government has jumped into panic mode and taken the representatives of the government employees association to New Delhi for talks.
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While the movement continues unabated and the violence escalating with each passing day, the government of Andhra Pradesh has found itself to be in an embarrassing position after the chief minister did not get his salary.
The government decided that it would be better if the employees met with the Union ministers in New Delhi directly and took an assurance from them.
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There have been various attempts made by the state government but nothing seems to have coaxed these employees.
However, it appears that the government employees from the Telangana region may go slow in their agitation at least till the end of March. They would give the government time till the end of March and then resume their agitation.
As a result of this agitation by government employees, salaries had not been disbursed to all the cabinet colleagues of the chief minister and also several officials in the state. The state treasury employs persons from the Telangana region and as they were all on strike salaries could not be given.
The next few days would, however, not witness much protests in the Telangana region.
Although the leaders say that they are giving time to the Union government, the fact is that the students are busy with their final exams. The exams would conclude by the end of the month following which the agitation would resume.
Student leaders say that the protests will intensify after March end and it would be in the interest of the government that a decision is taken quickly.
The students' leaders have, however, listed out a long list of complaints against Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhara Rao. They feel that he is not serious about the movement.
A member of the Political Joint Action Committee speaking on condition of anonymity says that cracks appear within the movement due to these rising complaints against KCR.
The first allegation against him was that he came late for the protest on Thursday. He had initially opposed this mass protest and this led to the allegation that he was intentionally delaying the solution.
They feel that he will remain in circulation only if the Telangana struggle is on and once that is over he could become a non-entity.
Moreover, they also question as to why KCR is in Hyderabad when the Parliament is in session. He has no work here and he should be protesting at the parliament, they also allege.
These are a couple of issues that will be discussed in the Telangana circles over the next couple of days and is likely to come up before the Joint Action Committee as well.
Meanwhile, the MLAs from the Telangana region continued to boycott proceedings in the assembly and they say that they would continue doing this until the union government gives them a concrete assurance.
The Congress MLAs who had threatened to resign have also put on hold this programme until the completion of the assembly elections to four states and one Union territory. This was decided at a meeting they held with party leader Veerappa Moily recently
