SHOW OF STRENGTH: TJS workers raisng slogans at the TRS `Samara Sankharavam' venue at Siddipet cotton market yard grounds on Thursday.- Photo: Mohd. Arif

SIDDIPET (MEDAK): The countdown has begun for the biggest ever show of strength by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on its home turf with its activists across Telanagana districts, beginning their journey on foot, bullock carts and cycles to reach the venue on Friday.

They have already started from places like Medak, Aler, Warangal, Medaram, Mancheryal, Karimnagar, Dommata, Bejjanki and Dubbaka. The TRS estimates at least 500 people from each village in Siddipet, Dommata, Dubbaka, Chinnakoduru, Thoguta, Kondapaka and Nangunoor areas of Medak district and equal numbers from Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad regions to attend the public meeting.

1000-strong convoy

Sankharavam' in the sprawling 45-acre open ground adjacent to the cotton market yard on the Siddipet-Karimnagar road. Parking for a 1000-odd vehicles expected to accompany party chief K.Chandrasekhar Rao from Telangana Bhavan in Jubilee Hills has been located next to the grounds.

All the other vehicles would be stopped outside the town where parking has been provided at four other places.

A live telecast of the meeting to be addressed by KCR and A.Narendra will also be in place with two broadcasting vans moving in from New Delhi.

TRS has chosen the Siddipet meeting to unveil and showcase the strength of the Telangana Jagarana Sena (TJS).

Over five hundred TJS activists dressed in white T-shirts and some with pink scarves held a rehearsal at the venue on Thursday under the watchful eye of T. Harish Rao, former minister and nephew of KCR.

More TJS activists from other districts are slated to converge on Friday. Later, speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Rao said that this meeting was aimed as a testimonial of popular sentiment for a separate state.

He said that irrespective of statehood announcement by UPA or NDA, the TRS is determined to take the agitation deep into remote villages of the region.

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