Centre may not rush into T - Srikrishna Panel Report Today;Centre Gears Up To Keep Peace

HOW TO AVERT THE T HEADACHE? --With the Srikrishna Committe expected to submit its report on Thursday,Prime Minister Mamnohan Singh on Wednesday discussed with senior cabinet colleagues the situation that may emerge in Andhra Pradesh and the steps to deal with it. The meeting focused on ensuring peace in the state,so that the Centre has the opportunity to study implications of the panel findings in depth. The emphasis is on maintaining peace and this was discussed in detail at a meeting held by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by home minister P Chidambaram and law minister M Veerappa Moily who is also AICC general secretary incharge of the state. The Centres apprehensions are clear.With the presence of several players in the Telangana debate ranging from Congresss own MPs,the Telangana Rashtra Samiti,rebel leader Jaganmohan Reddy and other outfits like TDP,the Centre is preparing for heavy police and paramilitay deployments.The nerve centres of likely agitations like Osmania University,the High Court in Hyderabad and the courts in Ranga Reddy district will be kept under watch.Some 5,000 paramilitary personnel have been sent to the state to maintain law and order.

There is a strong likelihood that the Centre will set up further mechanisms to study the Telangana demands,particularly in terms of the regional imbalances. Justice Srikrishna has indicated that the report is not going to be in black and white and will outline a set of options. Given the delicate nature of the political situation in Andhra Pradesh with chief minister Kiran Reddy presiding over a wobbly government,the Centre is not inclined to play with fire by considering the Telangana demand.It was pointed out that if solutions had been possible,they would have been considered some time ago.It seems Congress may look at measures like announcing a deputy CM from Telangana and other development packages though this is likely to be seen as tokenism.The capacity of TRS and Congresss Telangana leaders to spark an agitation cannot be underestimated.

Intrestingly,Jaganmohan is expected to meet Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar on Thursday,ostensibly in connection with crop damage and farmers woes in the recent heavy rains.His requests for a meeting with the Prime Minister have not drawn any response,but Pawar is ready to meet him.A part of Jagans calculations has been the unseating of the Kiran Kumar government. Meanwhile, information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni met Chidambaram and discussed the advisory issued by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) asking news channels to be sensitive while covering the release of the Srikrishna Committee report.Similar guidelines were issued before Ayodhaya (Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title suit) verdict in September.Sources said Soni has suggested to Chidambaram to appoint a nodal officer in the home ministry for dissemination of all information related to Justice Srikrishna Committee report.
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T activists plan Gujjar-type stir


Warangal: Twenty-four hours before the Justice Srikrishna committee submits its report,a strong undercurrent of T sentiment swept through Warangal,the hotbed of separate state movement,with the activists planning Gujjar-type agitations to achieve their goal. Taking the lead,professors of Kakatiya University have called upon people to intensify the fight for Telangana by blocking the railway tracks and highways on the lines of Gujjars in Rajasthan who have been demanding 5 per cent quota for the community.If the Srikrishna committee report does not take into account the aspirations of 4.5 crore people,we would get ready to fight it out like the Gujjars, Prof K Venkatnarayana said.While the general mood is that the committee would go against the T-sentiment,what has angered the agitators is the deployment of security forces to quell any violence.If the Centre is committed to formation of a separate state as announced on December 9,2009,why should it should send central forces to Telangana districts, questioned Prof A Seetaram Naik.
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Gadkari to blow T bugle on Jan 4

After the TRS and the Telangana Congress,the BJP too has decided to up the ante on the issue of separate state.BJP president Nitin Gadkari is to address a public meeting in Adilabad on January 4.The meeting is part of the Telangana Shankaravam that the BJP is planning to hold on the T issue. Our demand is that the UPA government should introduce the bill on Telangana in the budget session of Parliament, BJP national executive member Bandaru Dattatreya told the media here on Wednesday.
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Uneasy calm prevails in T


As Telangana JAC leaders,youth associations and cultural troupes prepare themselves to chalk out new agitational plans after the committee report comes out,the students wing is looking up to the political JAC to take the lead in intensifying the movement by resorting to non-cooperation agitation in a big way.The central government has panicked.It is ridiculous that it has deployed one company of APSP, two companies of CRPF in Warangal district ahead of the report, said student JAC leaders Valivullah Quadri and Vasudeva Reddy.

Sources said another company is being sent to Mahabubabad which witnessed unprecedented violence when Jaganmohan Reddy tried to take out his Odarpu yatra. Warangal West MLA Dasyam Vinaya Bhaskar alleged that the state government is treating the region as a yuddha bhoomi (war zone) when the agitations were being carried out peacefully.We will intensify the non-cooperation movement in courts, educational institutions and every administrative set-up to achieve our goal, he warned. While an uneasy calm prevailed in the town and the district,the talk of Srikrishna committee report resonated in every street corner as people discussed the outcome of the report.Whatever may be the findings of the panel,we would not let the guard down.We would take all sections of the society along to realise the T-dream, asserted KU professor T Papi Reddy.
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Get ready for mid-term polls: KCR


Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy is yet to launch his proposed party.But TRS president K Chandra sekhar Rao says Jagan factor may lead the state to mid-term polls in the next few months. Speaking during a closeddoor meeting of the party leaders at the Telangana Bhavan here on Wednesday,KCR said that mid-term assembly polls can happen anytime early next year.But he is learnt to have assured the party leaders that TRS would sweep the elections in the region,if such a situation arises. Several MLAs from the other two regions (Andhra and Rayalaseema) are gravitating towards Jagan and this can ensure the fall of the Kiran regime,he reportedly told the leaders.However,the TRS chief was of the view that Jagan will have no impact in the Telangana region and only his party will hold the sway.The TRS has already built its cadre in the T districts and the people of the region believe in only TRS as TDP and Congress have let down the people on this issue, KCR said.

Threatening to resign from MPs and MLAs posts once again,if T bill is not introduced in the Parliament in budget session,TRS president asked the Congress leaders to follow the suit and fight for the separate state cause.Our party MPs and MLAs are ready to sacrifice their posts for the T cause.T Congress MPs and MLAs also should prove their sincerity by stepping down from their posts, he said.
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