Centre dilly dallies on Telangana

Hyderabad crippled as stir intensifies

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03 Oct 2011, 1:06 pm

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre seems to be dragging its feet on the issue of forming a separate state of Telangana. Even as pressure mounts, both within the Congress and in Andhra Pradesh, for an early solution, the Centre on October 1 said it would need more time for further consultations.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said the government was not in a position to take immediate decision since the issue of bifurcation of the state was complicated. He said this after meeting with defence minister A K Antony, All India Congress Committee general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, to discuss a report on Telangana submitted by Azad. On Monday, prime minister Manmohan Singh assured members of Parliament from Telangana who met him that their demands would be placed before Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the party core committee.

Pranab Mukherjee said the government was not in a position to take immediate decision since the issue of bifurcation of the state was complicated
On Monday, prime minister Manmohan Singh assured members of Parliament from Telangana who met him that their demands would be placed before Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the party core committee
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) have threatened to intensify the ongoing Sakala Janula Samme (general strike by all sections of people, including government employees) in the state capital, Hyderabad, and the other nine districts in Telangana region
Frequent bandhs (shut downs), rail and road blockades, scheduled and unscheduled power cuts lasting hours, and buses keeping off the road since the beginning of the strike on September 13 have hit common people hard