Police first said no to Chalo Hyderabad. The High Court said yes. Sunday’s LB Stadium meeting is still only scheduled.

The meeting is on the calendar. The headcount is not yet a police figure.

Telangana CPS Employees Union — CPSEU — scheduled Chalo Hyderabad for Sunday, 23 August 2026, with the main demand to scrap the Contributory Pension Scheme and restore the old pension. State president Gangapuram Sthitaprajna and general secretary Kalwal Srikant said they would hold a large public meeting at LB Stadium with a lakh employees. A lakh employees is the union’s claim. It is not a police count. This desk will not invent Sunday turnout.

Police at first did not permit the meeting. Union leaders approached the High Court on Friday. The High Court granted permission. Permission granted is the locked procedural fact. This desk will not invent the text of the High Court order. It will not invent arrests around a meeting that, on this morning’s filing, has not yet been reported as held.

A Saturday card timed the TSCPSEU public meeting at LB Stadium on 23 August at 2 p.m., with Telangana High Court permission. Demand: abolish CPS, implement OPS. CPS, that card said, applied to government employees and teachers who joined after 2004; unions say 22 years without a guaranteed pension. The Congress election promise to scrap CPS and restore OPS is recalled on that card as unfulfilled. Unfulfilled is the union and opposition weather on the promise. It is not a government GO restoring OPS. This desk will not invent an OPS government order.

The same card described a Jan Jagaran Yatra from Seetharamachandra Swamy temple, Bhadradri Kothagudem, in two spells across 33 districts, with representations to local MLAs and ministers. Supporting unions named: TNGO, TGO, PRTU, UTF, STU, TPTF. MLC Pingili Sripal Reddy was among those who expressed solidarity. A Karimnagar poster launch named TNGO district president Daram Srinivas Reddy. The union said the agitation continues until a favourable government decision. Continues until is an agitation clock. It is not a settlement.

Hyderabad is the district. LB Stadium is the venue. 2 p.m. is the start time on one Saturday card only. Post-2004 joiners are the CPS cohort on that card. Thirty-three districts are the yatra span. This live-today filing appears on today’s paper and stays on tomorrow’s paper under the house rule for live filings.

What is not here is a Sunday turnout figure, a list of arrests, the text of the High Court order, or a government OPS GO. What is here is a scheduled LB Stadium meeting, a prior police refusal, a High Court permission, a union claim of a lakh employees, a 2 p.m. timing on one card, supporting unions named above, and a demand to scrap CPS for OPS.

Until a result desk lands after 2 p.m., Sunday is scheduled, not counted. Until the government writes an OPS order, the promise remains a promise the unions say is late. Empty stadium seats and a pension-file stamp are the honest picture before the meeting hour.