KCR holds forth on biz with T- TRS Chief Says It Will Be Business As Usual Once State Is Bifurcated

Despite sending signals that T-stir would disrupt business activities in the state,TRS chief KCR on Wednesday surprisingly sought to project an industry-friendly avatar in a meeting with representatives of business outfits and boasted that the formation of Telangana state was inevitable. The TRS honcho,in a closed door meeting organized by little known consulting firm International Market Assessment India Pvt Ltd,claimed that Hyderabad,which has historically been the capital of Telangana,would definitely become the new Tstate capital and that there was no way it could be made a Union Territory capital to be shared on the lines of Chandigarh.

In a bid to allay fears and project himself as the future CM of Telangana,KCR is learnt to have assured nearly 100 business representatives gathered there that not only would it be business as usual once Telangana is formed,it would also prosper after separation from Andhra Pradesh.Telangana would go out of its way to roll out the red carpet for creative business enterprises,he said. Interestingly,KCRs son K Taraka Rama Rao is learnt to have made a detailed power-point presentation on TRS vision for industrialization of Telangana (when it would be formed) and interventions to ensure effective industrialization of T-state,while the TRS chief responded to concerns about the future of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana posed by business representatives.TRS party ideologue K Jayashankar along with TRS floor leader Etala Rajender too was present at the meeting.

There was nothing new in what they said.We had all gone there with some expectations about some major announcements but what we got was the standard stuff about how Telangana will definitely happen and Hyderabad will remain its capital,said a senior official of a local firm. Though the decision on whether Telangana will be formed or not will be taken only after the Srikrishna committee findings are submitted at the end of the year,KCR was talking as if Telangana formation was a foregone conclusion,he added.But some others were impressed.At least we saw a different facet of TRS.They have a constructive programme, said one participant.

Even as IMA office bearers went to great lengths to conceal the identities of participants,representatives of international and domestic players like Sab Miller,GVK Bio,PnP consulting,DuPont,Matrix Laboratories,Broadridge,Splendid Aparna Projects,Gati,Ballarpur Industries,Bank of America,Apollo Hospitals are leant to have attended the closed-door meeting.However,analysts questioned the importance of the hush hush meeting as many of the participants were not promoters of business houses but just CEOs or middle ranking representatives and not the real decisionmakers.

Understandably TRS office bearers sought to project the meeting as a very successful one.CEOs of reputed companies,including MNCs and Indian companies,were present and KCR convinced them that Hyderabad would continue to maintain industrial standards once Telangana is formed, Rama Rao told mediapersons after the meeting. We convinced them that Telangana,once formed,will compete with industrially progressed states like Gujarat,Maharashtra and Karnataka,Rama Rao said. Pooh-poohing possibility of investment shifting out of Hyderabad or Telangana region due to the T-trouble,Rama Rao said that they had so far not come across any player shifting out due to the Telangana agitation.In case we see any such signals we will think about addressing them then,he said.
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Danam,Mukesh bow to T leaders pressure


The two Hyderabad ministers,Danam Nagender and Mukesh Goud,on Wednesday are said to have climbed down following an avalanche of protests from fellow Congress leaders from Telangana and the four MPs whom they dubbed as engaging in anti-party activities. Both the ministers met chief minister K Rosaiah during the day and briefed him about the situation on the issue.Later,talking to the media,the ministers said they have left the matter to the wisdom of the MPs Madhu Yaski Goud,G Vivekananda,Gutha Sukhender Reddy and Manda Jagannatham.It is unfair on the part of these MPs to allege that we are working to save our positions in the cabinet, they told the media.

According to sources,Rosaiah told them that he is being pressured from various groups on the issue and that as ministers,it is best if they exhibit restraint.Following that,the ministers are said to have assured him that they will not magnify the matter even if they are provoked to.But more protests are expected against these ministers,who are generally perceived as anti-Telangana ministers in cabinet. Since they have developed vested interests in Hyderabad,they are trying to create problems by seeking a separate status for Hydbad. Their attack on the MPs who played a key role in the recent T-events is an attempt to destabilise the Telangana movement, a senior Congress leader alleged.

These two ministers never expected that the state capital would become a centre for Telangana activities as TRS had no presence in Hyderabad,the leader said. The gap is being filled by Congress MPs,MLA, MLCs and other leaders including ministers like J Geeta Reddy.Recent developments have proved that Hyderabad has become a part of the Telangana agitation which hitherto was by and large indifferent to the separate state demand, the leader said. This,according to the leader,unsettled the two ministers who want either the status quo or separate status for Hyderabad city.It is believed that both these ministers raised the issue of activities of four MPs in the cabinet even though other Telangana ministers especially Geeta Reddy,P Sabita Indra Reddy,Komatireddy Venkata Reddy opposed them.

More protests are expected by various groups in the next few days to prevent the sabotage activities by the Telangana-ministers,sources said and added that the Telangana Congress leaders will not brook anymore criticism from their own partymen.
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