The Sakalu Janula Samme demanding the separate statehood for Telangana reached the thirtieth day, the resistance offered by the protestors was slowly diluting with scenes of reluctance found among the people from all walks of life. Though a union from the State Transport had withdrawn from the agitation, in view of the sufferings met out by people living in these areas, only few buses operated on the road today, especially the ordinary services. May be during the course of the day others might resume.

At Delhi on Tuesday the core group of the Congress met in the evening to discuss political developments, including the volatile situation in agitation-hit Telangana region. The top three namely the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and other senior ministers and party leaders are supposed to have taken part as per discrete sources.

The good news is that the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) postponed till Oct 15 its three-day rail blockade scheduled to begin Wednesday following which the railways announced that all train services through the turmoil region would be operated normally. But some activists had removed fishplates on a railway track in Adilabad. But there was no major tragedy as only a locomotive pulling a goods train jumped the rails, carrying coal from Singareni mines derailed near Srirampur station. All trains are on normal course with railways taking extra precautions.

At Adilabad Maha dharna podium AP forests department inspectors, SIs and constables belonging to the excise department, joined the protest and the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman M Kodandaram Reddy welcomed their move. This was the largest contingent of uniformed excise and forest officials from Adilabad.

At Hyderabad the Telangana Rashtra Samithis Chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao addressing T-employees Maha dharna at Indira Park here said the ongoing Telangana agitation would not stop till statehood is granted by the Centre, despite despite government attempts to suppress the movement by foisting cases and sending activists to jail. He asked Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to intervene immediately and take steps to carve out separate Telangana that existed in 1956 with Hyderabad as the capital while rejecting the RayalaTelangana concept.