TDP team leaves for Delhi with T report

A delegation of senior TDP leaders from Telangana,including N Janardhan Reddy, K Srihari and S Venugopalachari, left for New Delhi on Wednesday carrying a 200-page report to be submitted to the Srikrishna committee. The delegation will appear before the committee on Thursday and place brief highlights of the report before them. It is learnt that the T leaders have taken the help of several officials and collected data in regard to the money spent by successive governments in the Telangana region and development works they claim to have taken up there. The TDP leaders explained how the development in terms of figures was not translated into reality.For instance,statistics indicate that even districts like Mahbubnagar and Adilabad were far ahead in economic development.The leaders are understood to have explained that the economic development was the result of entrepreneurs from other regions having set up their business here,but when it came to providing jobs to the local people,injustice was meted out to them.

Similarly, though there are several educational instituions including medical colleges in the region, they are patronised mostly by students from other regions. Though two major rivers, Krishna and Godavari, pass through the region, it is starved of water for irrigation due to geographical reasons and lack of projects. Most areas still depend on borewells and agricultural wells for water, the report is learnt to have said. Meanwhile, party Rajya Sabha member M V Mysura Reddy submitted a report to the committee in his individual capacity claiming that several areas in Rayalaseema and Andhra regions were more backward than Telangana, and if a division has to take place then not two, but three or four states will have to be carved out.
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Srikrishna panel: Cong plans to seek more time - High Command Happy With Rosaiah Govt, Says Moily

The Congress said it would seek more time from the Srikrishna Committee to submit its report as a detailed exercise was under way to accommodate the views of all sections.Clarifying on the issue after attending a two-hour maiden meeting of the revamped AP Congress Co-ordination Committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday,in-charge of Congress affairs in AP Veerappa Moily said they would urge the committee to extend the date so that more people can submit their view points. Chief minister K Rosaiah, Congress co-ordination Committee convener D Srinivas, AP congress in-charge Veerappa Moily, information minister J Geeta Reddy,MPs Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, KVP Ramachandra Rao and Kavuri Sambasiva Rao and former ministers K Jana Reddy and Mohammed Ali Shabbir were present at the meeting. Responding to queries, Moily said the high command was satisfied with the performance of state government and assured that Centre would offer every possible help to the Rosaiah government. Regarding cabinet expansion,he said it would happen only after chief minister holds discussions with the high command. It is the chief ministers prerogative. He will decide and choose, he said. Terming as baseless the role of Congressmen in the recent communal disturbances in Old City, Moily came down heavily on leaders, MPs and MLAs who blamed a section of their own party for fomenting trouble. He warned of stringent disciplinary action against party leaders if they repeated such actions and said the high command was aware of the matter. I urge all leaders to observe maximum restraint. The high command is seized of the matter, he said. Moily said the party had decided to seek monthly performance reports from the district congress committee on all elected representatives. He said workers who have been sincerely working for the growth of the party would be suitably rewarded with nominations to various corporations at the earliest. When asked by a section of the mediaabout the proposed tour of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, he said: There is nothing wrong with the proposed state-wide tour. Moily was all praise for PCC chief D Srinivas for carrying out the membership drive. He said all respective MLAs, concerned ministers and other leaders would actively participate in Prajapatham yatra proposed by chief minister K Rosaiah from April 19.

TRS submits report to Srikrishna panel

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) submitted a 1000-page report containing its recommendations on the formation of Telangana to the Srikrishna Committee in New Delhi on Wednesday. The copy of the report was presented to committees member-secretary V K Duggal by a TRS delegation led by B Vinod Kumar. The report focusses on the history of Telangana, education and employment opportunities in the region, irrigation facilities and power supply, the leaders claimed. According to party sources here, Duggal told the team that a debate on the T issue will be organised in the first week of May. TRS leader E Rajendar told TOI that the party will seek clarifications from the committee with regard to the submissions made on the issue by the other political parties.
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