KCR meets T-panel, warns of war

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Friday strongly advocated bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh stating that there was no “emotional integration of the people of Telangana with those from Andhra since the merger” and warned of civil war if it was not done.

Mr Rao, along with a delegation of party leaders, including Ms Vijayashanti, Mr G. Vinod, experts Prof Jayashanker, Mr Vidyasagar and others made a power point presentation to the Srikrishna Committee in New Delhi and gave a voluminous report seeking separate Telangana. TRS is the first political party to present its view point before Srikrishna Committee.

During the 4-hour meeting, KCR presented a voluminous report on the injustice done to the region over the years pertaining to 10 subjects including irrigation, education, power, financial allocations and employment.

Justice Srikrishna, who heard the TRS delegation, expressed satisfaction at the outcome of the discussion and promised to call the TRS team again in July for further discussions.

“The TRS delegation gave a power-point presentation and also provided documents to push their case. We will hold discussions again. We need to have a closer look at all the documents and papers presented to us,” Justice Srikrishna said after the meeting.

Expressing satisfaction over the outcome of the meeting, Mr Rao said the TRS delegation had made it clear to the panel that bifurcation was the only solution or else there would civil war.

“Merger of Telangana with Andhra was neither unconditional nor eternal. Any alliance cannot be continued by force. The Samaikhya Andhra agitation is pure rubbish. There is no way for people of Telangana to live with Andhra,” KCR remarked.

Mr Rao said while elected representatives like MPs, MLAs from Telangana region support Telangana in one voice; it was not the case in Seema-Andhra region.

“TRS told the committee that there were 5/6 divergent views in Seema-Andhra region. Some want Samaikhya Andhra, some suggest separate Andhra State, some wanted separate north coastal State, some from Rayalaseema are opposed to merger with Andhra while some other want to join with Telangana in the name of Rayala-Telangana,” he said.

The committee agreed that it received divergent views from Seema-Andhra. It sought additional information on some subjects, KCR said.

He said they had provided irrefutable proof of government documents, GOs, CAG reports and other data. “The committee members looked surprised at our inputs,” he said.

Mr Rao requested the committee to look into the “illegal” construction of Pothireddypadu and other projects that harmed the interests of Telangana.

“We brought to the committee’s notice how work on Ichampalli has been set aside and Polavaram taken up,” he said.

KCR to wait for three months

The TRS president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Saturday once again said that his party legislatures and MPs would submit their resignation if the terms of reference of the Srikrishna committee were not in favour of creating Telangana.

He further warned that if the time frame given to the committee is beyond three months his party would launch an agitation and force MLAs of other parties to also resign.

He was addressing a gathering at a book release function of former deputy chief minister, Mr K.V. Ranga Reddy’s autobiography.

He made it clear that his party would not agree for the demand of Hyderabad as a joint capital for Telangana and Andhra even after the separation of the state.

He demanded that Telangana should created on the boundaries which existed on October 31, 1956 and said that there was no dispute between Andhra and Telangana on boundaries.

He said that his party will not object, if people of Andhra want Bhadrachalam for themselves.

He appealed to their party men to condemn the propaganda of United Andhra leaders that 40 lakh Andhra people were residing in the city.

Mr Ajit Singh, leader of Rastriya Lok Dal, criticised the Centre for not to responding on the Telanagana issue till it turns to be a law and order problem.

Quit by Jan. 28, KCR tells leaders

The TRS president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Saturday said elected representatives from ward members to MPs who fail to resign by the January 28 deadline will be taught a lesson by the people.
“You will know on January 28 who are for Telangana and who are against it. We cannot achieve statehood unless we create a constitutional crisis and force the Centre to carve out separate state,” he said.
Mr Rao said the police is against people of Telangana region. He said a case was booked against his daughter Kavita for giving a call to boycott the screening of Jr NTR’s Adhurs.
“Formation of Telangana is inevitable. There is no question of people of two
regions living together after all the injustice done to the region,” he added.
Meanwhile, Mr Rao skipped the Mahbubnagar district review meeting convened by the Chief Minister on Saturday. Sources said Mahbubnagar was strategically selected to “expose” Mr Rao over issues such as drought and welfare programmes.