samaikya andhra sabha

Press Release – Jai Samaikya Andhra Pradesh supporters meeting in Atlanta, USA on Sunday, 24th Jan 2010

Jai Samaikya Andhra Pradesh, Atlanta, USA unit met on Sunday January 24th in Atlanta to extend their support for the United Andhra Pradesh. Over 100 Telugu NRI's gathered and expressed their views on current Andhra Pradesh situation. Venkat Mondeddu acted as the moderator for the event. Nalamotu Chakravarthy, from Nalgonda, Author of "Telangana State Demand - A Bhasmasura Wish" televised his expert comments on truth behind the allegations made by Telangana separatists. He also involved in Q&A session from the audience. Srinivas Cherukumilli talked about history of Andhras and the formation of Trilinga state to Andhra Pradesh. He stressed that Andhra Pradesh state is not a 60 years old but evolved over centuries.


Ravi Singareddy from Nizamabad, architect of Telangana Railway Ring Project, expressed his anguish over how the unemployed Telangana politicians are manipulating people of Telangana over non issues and condemned magnifying normal issues. He blasted Telangana politicians over non completion of Jagityal to Nizamabad railway, which was started 18 years ago by Late Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, which will cost 345 crores for completion. He questioned the credibility of Telangana politicians, who can not concentrate on development of Telangana but talk about separate Telangana state. He advised people of Telangana not to fall prey for these selfish Telangana politicians. He said Telangana’s under-development issue is only resolved by development and not by division.


Devanand Kondur explained how Telugu people merged together to form Andhra Pradesh. He stressed on strength in unity of Telugu people. Purna Veeraneni explained, if Telangana state is formed, how the employment will be reduced and reduction in state budget will lead to reduction of the welfare programs. Venkatarami Reddy Chintham expressed his anger and explained that Duke University’s campus which is supposed to start in Hyderabad, has moved to Gujarath due to the current situation in A.P. He was mediating to bring Duke University campus to Hyderabad.


Srinivas Lavu, Satish Musunuri, Sunil Gandhi and Kumar Paladugu condemned the statement made by the Home Minister on Dec 9th, 2009 which led to chaotic situation in Andhra Pradesh. Raj Kasireddy and Anand Akkineni expressed these divisions in states will lead to India into 600 princely states of British era. Srinivas Segireddy and Suresh Peddi questioned the real intensions behind the division of Telugu people. Kiran Kandula said division of Telangana will only give employment to unemployed Telangana politicians and not to the people of Telangana. Mallik Medarametla, Rajesh Jampala and Upendra Narra expressed sadness over current Andhra Pradesh and expressed anger for taking Telugu people for a ride. Alwal Reddy, from Nalgonda, expressed concern over Telangana politicians not resolving Fluorosis problem in Nalgonda, but trying to bring additional problems by the division of Telangana. Gopichand Sukhavasi and Gopi Duggirala demanded why central government took such a drastic decision in this current recession times, where people are struggling to lead their lives because of exorbitant commodity prices and putting people of Andhra Pradesh into bankruptcy. Madhu Sudan and Sudhakar Borra expressed their concern over Andhra Pradesh’s development being rolled back to 10 years and other states exploiting uncertainty in Andhra Pradesh.


Srinivas Kotluri, expressed concern over how American OutSourcing companies are closely observing Hyderabad situation and these companies are not able to fulfill their customer requests. This is leading to termination of Service Level Agreements with Hyderabad software companies. Guruva reddy and Shivaram Mattipalli showed their dissatisfaction over current situation in Andhra Pradesh and expressed strong leadership is needed to tackle current situation in Andhra Pradesh.


Finally Samaikya Andhra Pradesh, Atlanta unit announced they will be releasing road map for Samaikya Andhra Pradesh movement. Samaikya Andhra Pradesh team expressed their gratitude to Suresh Sajja owner of Sai Murali Indian Restaurant, Alpharetta, Georgia for providing the nice facility for this event.