Call off fast, 135 more cases lifted: Jana

The State Government has decided to withdraw 135 more cases against the students who participated in the Telangana agitation on Monday.

Disclosing this information to the media persons at the Secretariat, Minister for Panchayat Raj Jana Reddy assured that the remaining cases will be lifted shortly in stages after examining them.

He also issued an appeal through media to the Congress MPs who were participating in a Satyagraha at New MLA Quarters, Adarsh Nagar to call off their agitation immediately as Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has agreed to withdraw the remaining cases also in different stages after studying them.

Reminding that the government had announced the lifting of 565 cases during the Winter Session of the State Assembly, Mr Jana Reddy that the administrations was further studying the cases to take a decision.

With this 43 percent cases have been withdrawn, said Mr Jana Reddy.

Minister for Legislative Affairs Duddilla Sridhar Babu and Minister for BC Welfare Basavaraj Saraiah also spoke.

Earlier, Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy, PR Minister Jana Reddy, Handloom Minister Shankar Rao and BC Welfare Minister Basavaraj Saraiah met the Chief Minister and discussed the issue threadbare.