The JAC leader ended the hunger strike on the ninth day at the Gandhi Hospital, which had been experiencing a tense situation for a couple of days due to the visits of leaders of student groups and political parties to show solidarity with him.
Naik thanked all those who supported his hunger strike. He promised to intensify the protest in other ways starting Wednesday.
He made it clear that the JAC will continue the strike until the state government accepts their demands.
Naik recalled that when Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader KC Rao went on hunger strike for nine days, the Center accepted the demand for creation of Telangana state, but even after his nine-day hunger strike, The government did not increase a single position for recruitment.
“This is the approach of this government. He did not bother to check what happened to me and what our demands were,” he stated.
"The demands with which I went on hunger strike are nothing more than the promises made by the Congress Party in its election manifesto," he said.
Naik said that whenever Congress leaders were reminded of their promises, they asked the unemployed to wait, citing the Model Code of Conduct for the MLC elections and subsequent Lok Sabha elections. He alleged that after the elections the government did not publish the work calendar or issue notifications for the recruitment exams.
He said that his main demands were to allow 100 candidates for a seat in the Group I main examination, increase Group II seats by 2,000 and Group III seats by 3,000.
The JAC leader also wanted the state government to issue a mega DSC notification to appoint 25,000 teachers.
“Congress promised 2 lakh jobs in the first year. What we are demanding is not even 30,000. No one believes in your promise of 2 lakh jobs and unemployment benefit,” he said. The opposition BRS and BJP have supported Naik's hunger strike and the ongoing protests by the unemployed.
BRS leader and former minister T. Harish Rao had visited Naik in the hospital on June 30 and asked him to end the hunger strike.
BRS MLA P. Rajeshwar Reddy and some other leaders were detained by the police on Monday when they reached Gandhi Hospital to show solidarity with Naik.
Naik thanked all those who supported his hunger strike. He promised to intensify the protest in other ways starting Wednesday.
He made it clear that the JAC will continue the strike until the state government accepts their demands.
Naik recalled that when Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader KC Rao went on hunger strike for nine days, the Center accepted the demand for creation of Telangana state, but even after his nine-day hunger strike, The government did not increase a single position for recruitment.
“This is the approach of this government. He did not bother to check what happened to me and what our demands were,” he stated.
"The demands with which I went on hunger strike are nothing more than the promises made by the Congress Party in its election manifesto," he said.
Naik said that whenever Congress leaders were reminded of their promises, they asked the unemployed to wait, citing the Model Code of Conduct for the MLC elections and subsequent Lok Sabha elections. He alleged that after the elections the government did not publish the work calendar or issue notifications for the recruitment exams.
He said that his main demands were to allow 100 candidates for a seat in the Group I main examination, increase Group II seats by 2,000 and Group III seats by 3,000.
The JAC leader also wanted the state government to issue a mega DSC notification to appoint 25,000 teachers.
“Congress promised 2 lakh jobs in the first year. What we are demanding is not even 30,000. No one believes in your promise of 2 lakh jobs and unemployment benefit,” he said. The opposition BRS and BJP have supported Naik's hunger strike and the ongoing protests by the unemployed.
BRS leader and former minister T. Harish Rao had visited Naik in the hospital on June 30 and asked him to end the hunger strike.
BRS MLA P. Rajeshwar Reddy and some other leaders were detained by the police on Monday when they reached Gandhi Hospital to show solidarity with Naik.
