The advocates who have been staging a relay hunger strike for the last 11 days demanding the high court in Kurnool, took out a rally to the Collectorate along with hundreds of students of unaided schools here on Thursday.
Addressing the protesters, Kurnool Bar Association president and Rayalaseema High Court Sadhana Samithi co-convenor V. Nagalakshmi Devi charged the Chandrababu Naidu government with meting out injustice to the parched Rayalaseema region. The Shribagh Pact which stipulated establishment of the State capital in one region and the high court in another region was being grossly violated, she alleged.
The A.P. Unaided School Managements’ Association president Srinivasa Reddy and leaders V. Janardhana Reddy, G. Pullaiah, K.N.V. Rajasekhar, Vasudevaiah and students of several schools, including the Cattamanchi Group of Schools, Bala Bharathi high school and Vasavi women’s college took part in the rally and expressed their solidarity with the protesting advocates. Bar Association leaders Ravi Geuvera, P. Nirmalamma, former bar association president K. Omkar and BC United Front leader N. Srinivasulu took part. The protesters earlier formed a human chain at Raj Vihar circle. Advocates also staged a rally and rasta roko protest in Adoni town under the leadership of Adoni Bar Association president Ranganna and secretary Vijayabhaskar Reddy.
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Court boycott
The advocates of the Tirupati Bar Association boycotted court work and took out a rally in Tirupati on Thursday. Along with a number of law students, the advocates led by Tirupati Bar Association vice-president V. Srinivasulu, general secretary Thimma Reddy and joint secretary A. Rajasekhar launched an offensive on the government for its ‘insensitivity’ towards the issue.