‘Vanchana Sabha’ sends strong message to Telangana government on jobs
HYDERABAD: From GO 46 to shrinking age limits, the unemployed youth of Telangana have run out of patience. A massive public meeting at Dilsukhnagar on June 4 marks the beginning of a new phase of agitation.
They called it a “Vanchana Sabha”, a meeting of the deceived. On June 4, 2026, thousands of unemployed police recruitment aspirants from across Telangana converged on the Bala Lakshmi Function Hall and Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad for a massive public demonstration that organisers described as the beginning of a formal war against the Congress government’s record on employment. The message was unambiguous, after two-and-a-half years of false deadlines, age-limit jugglery, and broken pre-election pledges, patience has run out.
Commenting on the issue, Akash Goud from Unemployed JAC said, “Will Chief Minister Revanth Reddy not take cognizance of the pitiable plight of poor students from rural backgrounds who are subsisting on one meal a day at Sai Baba temples in Hyderabad? How much longer must they wait?”
Leaders of the Telangana Unemployed Joint Action Committee (JAC), including Damodar Reddy, Akash Goud, Shankar, Naveen Naik, Shimbu Naik Banoth and Indra Naik, organized the meeting to unite frustrated police recruitment aspirants. They warned that if Sub-Inspector (SI) and Police Constable recruitment notifications are not released by the end of June 2026, candidates will march from Dilsukhnagar to the Director General of Police (DGP)’s office in Hyderabad.
Speakers compared the current Congress government to the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) administration. The BRS government issued police recruitment notifications in 2016, 2018, and 2022, recruiting over 45,000 Police Constables and Sub-Inspectors. To help candidates affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, they relaxed the upper age limit by up to five years, raising the maximum age to 32. Damodar Reddy from the JAC said that under the Congress government, not a single new police recruitment notification has been issued in over two years.
Aspirants want the government to fill 19,000 Sub-Inspector (SI) and Police Constable vacancies. They also demand the filling of 25,000 Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) posts, including 500 Group-1 posts, 2,000 Group-2 posts, and 3,000 Group-3 posts. They call for filling 5,000 vacancies in the power sector, as well as posts in the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Libraries, and sports quota positions.
GO 46, GO 31, GO 87: A chronicle of deception
Aspirants blame a series of government orders for their problems. They say these orders show the Congress administration’s lack of concern for the unemployed. Before the 2023 elections, Congress promised to repeal GO 46 immediately after coming to power. More than two years later, the government has not addressed this issue.
Further, Akash Goud added, Congress pledged to repeal GO 46 and issue police recruitment notifications right away. Many unemployed youth who had supported BRS trusted these promises. The government raised the upper age limit by two years to 34, which aspirants welcomed. However, no recruitment notifications were issued while GO 31 was in force. Ministers made new promises every few months, but each deadline passed with no action. Instead of keeping GO 31’s age relaxation, the government introduced GO 87, lowering the age limit from 34 to 32. As a result, more candidates became ineligible as they aged.
As a result of these delays, thousands of aspirants gathered at Dilsukhnagar and issued an ultimatum. They demanded recruitment notifications by the end of June or threatened a march to the DGP’s office. They also raised the age limit demand to 36–46 years to make up for lost years.
Furthermore, aspirants say GO 87 is the most unfair order. The government issued it after GO 31’s age relaxation expired, but without any new recruitment notifications. Many feel this punishes those who waited for years. Now, aspirants want the age limit raised to 36–46 years to compensate.
Key demands
Aspirants listed several demands. They want the government to change the age eligibility cut-off date from July 1 to January 1, like in other states. They want GO 87 reversed and the upper age limit set between 36 and 46 years. They demand immediate release of SI, Constable, and TSPSC Group notifications. There are still 19,000 police posts unfilled. Aspirants also want the government to stop filing false cases against peaceful protesters and to respond to their petitions.
According to aspirants, the government used the unemployed as campaign supporters and then ignored them after winning. Akash Goud said, “Rural students are living on one meal a day at Sai Baba temples in Hyderabad. Young men and women from villages came to the city for government jobs and are now running out of time, money, and hope.”
The JAC made their ultimatum clear: issue notifications by the end of June 2026, or face a march from Dilsukhnagar to the DGP’s office.
