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People urged not to end lives for Telangana

Staff Reporter

“It's not the time to end lives in despair but to fight for the cause”

fervent APPEAL:BJP legislator

HYDERABAD: Families of persons who have committed suicide for Telangana have given a call to youth, students and others not to end lives for Telangana in despair, but asked them to participate in the movement with renewed vigour. It is going to be the fittest homage to those who sacrificed themselves for Telangana, they said.

Speaking at a meeting organised under the aegis of ‘Telangana Amara Veerulu Kutumbala Rashtra Aikya Vedika' here on Tuesday to felicitate the 12 legislators who triumphed in the recent by-polls, family members of 12 persons who ended lives for Telangana, including K. Srikanth Achary and K. Venugopal Reddy, appealed that no other family should undergo the pain they were going through. They urged people not to sacrifice lives but instead fight for Telangana till the goal was realised.

Explaining her family's agony Ramya, 14-year-old daughter of Satyanarayana, who ended life for Telangana, sought to know “how many such sacrifices are required to achieve Telangana and how many families have to suffer.”

Telangana JAC chairman M. Kodandaram and legislators -- E. Rajender (TRS) and Y. Laxminarayana (BJP) -- also appealed to people that it was not the time to end lives in despair but time to fight for the cause.

The JAC committees would make the youth and students take a pledge on Wednesday in schools and villages centres against resorting to suicides, Prof. Kodandaram said.

A Telangana star night would be organised in Shilpa Kala Vedika on October 10 and a cricket match would be held in December first week to help the families of persons who ended lives. The victim families were also given some financial assistance at the meeting.

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