TNN Jan 8, 2011, 02.12am IST
HYDERABAD: Rejecting the Srikrishna Committee report, the TDP Telangana forum has decided to launch agitations in all the 119 assembly constituencies in the Telangana region from next week.
The forum, which held two rounds of meeting on Friday, charged that the Srikrishna Committee had totally ignored the reports submitted by the T parties including the TDP and prepared a report under the influence of Seemandhra leaders. They felt that the report was an insult to the people of Telangana who were deprived of their rights for over five decades. The report had added to confusion and was certainly not a step forward as was being claimed by Union home minister P Chidambaram, they said.
According to the leaders, only the Centre can find a solution to the vexed problem and all that the political parties in the state can now do was to put pressure on the Central government and the Congress to introduce a bill for separate state in the budget session of Parliament.
After the first round of meeting at the New MLA quarters around noon, the forum leaders comprising 25 legislators and party leaders drove down straight to the Raj Bhavan and staged a dharna for about 20 minutes before the police arrested them and took them away to Punjagutta police station. The TDP leaders shouted slogans like "political governor go back," and demanded withdrawal of central forces and introduction of a bill in the budget session of Parliament.
Forum convener N Janardhan Reddy said an emergency like condition was prevailing in the state. He said while all the T forces should organise agitations in democratic form, TRS leader KCR had a greater responsibility to put pressure on the Centre to introduce a bill in Parliament. "We suspect that there is some kind of match-fixing between KCR and the Congress party in the preparation of the Srikrishna Committee report," he alleged.
Regional council for Rayalaseema sought
On the other hand, the Seemandhra TDP legislators also met separately and felt that the committee report had "exposed KCR's false propaganda that Telangana region was backward. It is now clear that it is Rayalaseema which is more backward among the three regions," P Keshav said. They demanded that special regional councils for Rayalaseema also should be created. The Seemandhra legislators, however, felt that a permanent solution to the imbroglio can be found only if the Centre took a clear decision on whether or not to bifurcate the state. If bifurcation becomes unavoidable, the capital of the new state should be located in Rayalaseema region, they said.
Even as the leaders from the two regions continue to be divided on T state, party president N Chandrababu Naidu has decided to launch Rytu Yatra from North Coastal Andhra from January 9.
