JAC to wait for terms of reference of Telangana committee

The Telangana Joint Action Committee, spearheading the agitation for a separate state, on Wednesday said it would wait for the terms of reference of the Telangana committee announced by the Centre before giving its views.

“We would like to know the terms of reference of the and the time-frame of the committee,” JAC Convener C. Kodandaram told reporters here.

The JAC would meet later in the day to discuss the issue, he said.

Senior Telugu Desam MLA N. Janardhan Reddy, who represents the main opposition party in the JAC, also said his party would respond only after the terms of reference of the committee are announced.

“We want to know the terms of reference of the committee before giving our reaction. What we want is Telangana state in a time-frame. If this committee is for it, then we will welcome it,” he said.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) too said it would wait for terms of reference of the committee to be announced.

“We are waiting for terms of reference of the committee to know if it is in furtherance to the December 9 statement made by Home Minister P. Chidambaram. (If it is so), then we can look forward to it. If it is a step back to explore whether to give Telangana or not then we will not be happy with it,” K T Rama Rao, TRS MLA and party president K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s son, told PTI.