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It’s official. The Congress wants to set up a second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) to decide on the creation of new states. The move is to pre-empt BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s proposal for the division of the state into four smaller states. Mayawati wants the state to be divided into Bundelkhand, [...]
AICC general secretary incharge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday informed the media that a decision on Telanagana would be taken after November 10. Azad met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday for about half an hour and apprised her of the situation in the state following the withdrawal of the strike by [...]
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Thursday insisted that Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu clarify his stand on the Telangana issue. Addressing a press conference at Telangana Bhavan, TRS floor leader Etela Rajender said that the TDP president never had clarity with regard to demand for Telangana statehood. It maintained a confused stand in [...]
D Nalini, former Deputy Superintendent of Police of Medak Town, who has put in her papers demanding formation of Telangana, has announced that that she would launch hunger fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Nalini is demanding that the Centre honour its promise of formation of Telangana state made by Union Home Minister P [...]
The ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh suffered a setback on Sunday as three of its MLAs quit the party to protest delay in formation of separate Telangana state and joined the TRS. T Rajaiah from Station Ghanpur in Warangal district, Jupally Krishna Rao of Kollapur in Mahabubnagar district and Somarapu Satyanarayana from Ramagundam in Karimnagar [...]
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao strongly refuted allegations that he had interest in the Polavaram Indira Sagar Project and that in order to clinch the contract he had compromised the Telangana movement. Addressing a news conference here, the TRS chief sought to turn the tables on the Telugu Desam Party for making the [...]
His struggle for a separate Telangana state may have stretched several decades now but 96-year-old Acharya Konda Lakshman Bapuji remains undaunted as as he goes on a seven-day hunger strike in the capital from November 1. Announcing his decision to go on a satyagraha here today, Bapuji, a 1969 pro-Telangana agitation leader, warned that he [...]
the Telangana JAC on Monday called upon the people of the region to observe November 1 as “Telangana Betrayal Day”
Changing its agitational course, the Telangana JAC on Monday called upon the people of the region to observe November 1, which is Andhra Pradesh Formation Day, as “Telangana Betrayal Day” and decided to organise deekshas from the first day of November. The JAC convenor Prof M Kodandaram, while addressing the press after the JAC Steering [...]
October 30, 2011 | More
Talking to reporters after a meeting of the JAC, its convener M Kodandaram said Telangana supporters would hoist black flags at various places on that day. “The formation of Andhra Pradesh is betrayal for us,” Kodandaram said. The pro-Telangana public representatives of various parties, who have quit their posts, would sit on a fast, he [...]
The direction was given by the 11th metropolitan magistrate based on a petition filed by S Janardhan Goud and Krishna, two advocates from Chaitanyapuri. In the petition it was mentioned that Chandrababu Naidu had extended his support for separate Telangana by including the issue in the party’s manifesto before the elections. “Chandrababu Naidu included the [...]