HYDERABAD: The health of fasting TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is deteriorating and he urgently needs oral feed, a medical bulletin said on Wednesday, PTI reported.
55-year-old Rao, whose indefinite fast for creation of a separate Telengana state entered the 11th day, is “refusing intravenous antibiotics, saline, glucose and any other supporting therapy,” doctors at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here said.
“He is not cooperating and has refused to undergo a blood test. He is weak but conscious and is talking. He should resume oral feed as his health condition is deteriorating,” they said in the bulletin.
Senior TRS MLA and Rao’s nephew T Harish Rao besides party leaders and family members had urged Rao to break the fast but he has consistently refused. He has also refused to take medicines and that was complicating the situation as he has not taken solids for over a week, TRS senior leader Nayini Narasimha Reddy said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Telangana issue is threatening to throw Hyderabad into complete chaos on Wednesday ahead of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti’s (TRS) march to the Andhra assembly on Thursday. Along with the TRS, the Joint Action Committee of Students Union’s have threatened to storm the assembly on December 10, reported Times Now.
Over 15,000 angry students from the Osmania and Kakatia universities and various other colleges and schools continued to intensify their agitation today for a separate Telangana campaign. However, the state government is not taking any chances. Despite several students being taken into preventive custody, protests only escalated.
Over 12,500 armed policemen and paramilitary forces have been deployed in the city. In view of the ‘Chalo Assembly’ call given by TRS and the students union, elaborate security arrangements have been made.
Prohibitory orders banning the assembly of five or more people were imposed in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana under Section 144.
“A holiday has been declared in all the colleges in the region till Dec 18 and there is no reason why any student should stay on campus,” Inspector General of Police A R Anuradha said.
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned over the TRS demand for passing a resolution favouring formation of a separate Telangana state.
For the second consecutive day, TRS members, holding placards, raised slogans and demanded that the House pass the resolution in favour of Telangana.
The Centre should be given time to take a decision on the Telangana issue, chief minister K Rosaiah said and appealed to the TRS members to let the House take up business as per the agenda.
“This (Telangana) is a sensitive issue. It is not easy to pass a resolution. Don’t you want the resolution to win (if introduced)? The issue is under consideration of the government. You have made your point. Let the House discuss other public issues of importance,” Rosaiah said.
Rosaiah stressed the need to observe restraint as emotions and tempers are running high over the issue. “It will be very difficult, if the situation goes out of control,” he said.
Senior TRS legislator T Harish Rao, however, alleged that Rosaiah is behaving like the Roman king who played fiddle when Rome was burning.
“We expected Rosaiah to find a solution. When our leader Chandrasekhar Rao has been on fast for the last ten days, you are not bothered. The Telangana people are agitated,” he said.
As Speaker N Kirankumar Reddy tried to go on with the agenda, the TRS members entered the well of the House and raised slogans following which Reddy adjourned the House.
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