TRS readies a jumbo report -To Submit A 1000-Page Report To Srikrishna Panel On April 8

After a monthlong marathon exercise, TRS has prepared a 1000-page voluminous report to be submitted to Srikrishna committee on April 8 at New Delhi. The report explains urgent need for bifurcation of the state. TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao along with party ideologue K Jayashankar and politburo member B Vinod Kumar will leave for New Delhi on Tuesday. Final touches to the report will be given at a meeting of senior party leaders on Monday.The meeting will be chaired by KCR.The report contains four volumes. First volume explains the historical background of Telangana, education facilities, income and expenditure in the region. The second volume deals exclusively about lack of irrigation facilities in the region though two major rivers Godavari and Krishna flow through it. Third and fourth volumes illustrate about employment and power situation in T-region. The report prepared by TRS will be the biggest document as compared to the reports submitted by other political parties and T organisations. Statistics shown in the report, party sources claim have been taken from official documents. It took one month to prepare a detailed report with the support of 11 sub-committees, professor Jayashankar told.
Retired irrigation engineers,academicians,university professors,experts in power sector and several cultural organisations have contributed immensely in preparation of the report, he said. KCR proposes to take up Pallenidra and Pallebata programmes from April 12 in Telangana districts. The programme is being organised as part of election campaign for bypolls, expected to be held in August, in 10 assembly constituencies from where TRS MLAs had resigned. As party sources indicated, KCR is likely to high light local issues, instead of need for statehood, as the party chief feels that Telangana movement had reached its peak and there is no need to speak more about it.

TDP T-MLAs prepare a 200-page report

The Telangana region TDP MLAs will submit a 200-page report to Srikrishna committee on April 8 in New Delhi highlighting the injustice meted to the region by the successive governments and the need to bifurcate the state. A day later, TDP leaders from coastal Andhra will meet the committee and submit another report opposing the bifurcation of the state. The Telangana TDP legislators, who met here on Sunday, told media that the 200-page report would consist of 15 chapters on issues like education, health, irrigation, injustice in employment, problems of drinking water etc. The TDP, according to party senior leader Pocharam Srinivas, has taken up a detailed study of all these issues and various subject committees of the party had contributed necessary inputs to take forward their argument in an effective manner.
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PLAN TO CONDUCT T MEET ON APRIL 25 -OU students to get back on T mode

Osmania University, which was the nerve centre of separate Telangana movement, will again reverbe-rate with Jai Telangana slogans soon. Indicating this, a leader of Telangana Teenmar students union Warangal Ravi said a public meeting would be held on OU campus on April 25 where representatives of all student unions from all districts of the region would take part. This meeting will be another turning point in the ongoing movement for the separate state, Ravi told TOI here on Sunday. He said writer Arundhati Ray and social activist Medha Patkar would take part in the meeting. He said their effort was to bring disparate groups within the student unions under one roof to fight for the separate Telangana state cause. He alleged that TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao had lured some student leaders with money. With the movement going out of his hands,KCR hatched a plan to break the unity among the students, he said and added no politician could succeed in his attempts.
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50 STUDENTS HELD BY POLICE - KU students attempt to disrupt Ponnala meet

Around 50 students belonging to Kakatiya University JAC were taken into custody here on Sunday when they tried to disrupt major irrigation minister Ponnala Laxmaiah review meeting on water supply at  collectors office. The JAC students took out a rally from KU to the collectorate where they protested against the ministers approach on the Telangana issue. JAC leader Vasudeva Reddy and others demand-ed that Laxmaiah resign immediately from his post. They shouted slogans against him and Congress MLAs for not resigning from their posts. In the evening,the students staged a dharna in front of the district Congress party office and burnt an effigy of Laxmaiah. They demanded that the minister has no right to continue in the post when others were fighting for the separate state. Earlier, Laxmaiah told the media that the government would meet the farmers demand of uninterrupted power supply. He allayed fears over shortage of power,saying several power projects are nearing completion stage. Apart from the 500 MW Kakatiya Thermal Power Station (KTPS) at Bhupalpally in Warangal, power stations at Sattupally in Khammam and Adilabad were almost in the completion stage. He said the 700 MW gas-based power station at Karimnagar and 600 MW BPL power station in Khammam would also be completed soon. Once all these power projects go on stream, the region will not have any power problems, he added.
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