Vijayamma ends fast on Jagan’s request

Guntur, Aug 24, 2013: YSR Congress honourary president Smt. Y.S.Vijayamma’s fast unto death Samara Deeksha was foiled by the Guntur police who raided her fasting camp last night and took her to the General Hospital.

Later, Vijayamma continued her Deeksha in the Hospital but later called off her fast after YSR Congress Chief Sri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy telephoned her from Chanchalguda jail with the permission of officials and requested her to give the fast as her health had deteriorated.

Earlier, thousands of YSR Congress Party activists gathered outside the hospital premises and spent anxious moments as she refused to cooperate with doctors for treatment and take even fluids despite her sugar and BP levels going down.

After Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy spoke to her, she called off her Deeksha.

Vijayamma launched her indefinite fast at the sprawling old bus stand area in Guntur on Monday opposing the Congress unilateral and autocratic decision to form Telangana state and sending a stern message to the Centre to keep the state united if it cannot render equal justice to all the regions while solving the Telangana tangle.

While her Samara Deeksha continued to evoke huge response and draw the party activists and supporters from across the state, Vijayamma in her media interactions expressed the view that the present distressing situation would not have arisen in the state if TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu and all his party MLAs had resigned when the YSRCP MLAs had quit.

Warning the Congress leadership that water wars would erupt if the bifurcation was carried out without solving the issues such as sharing of river waters, natural gas and other resources, relocation of Government employees and distribution of public sector undertakings and revenue sharing besides deciding the status of Hyderabad city, she said these issues must be solved first before any division could take place. 

“Rendering equal justice to all regions will be good for the entire state including the Telangana region. Status quo should continue in the interest of all people of the state if these issues cannot be solved and settled first and foremost to the satisfaction of all stake holders,” she said in her brief media interactions.