T Cong leaders bite their tongues on T panel report - TRS Vocal,T-Cong MPs/MLAs Follow Delhi Diktat

While TRS leaders spoke on Thursday in strong terms on separate Telangana irrespective of Srikrishna Committee report,mum was the word for the Telangana Congress leaders as they seemed to have taken seriously the high commands directive against making any statement on the report. Congress party MPs and MLAs from the region,who stole the thunder by forcing the government to withdraw all the cases booked against students, have suddenly fallen silent. Following a clear directive from high command, PCC president D Srinivas and Telangana Congress leaders refused to make any comment,saying that they were not aware of the contents of the report. Sources said the MPs and the MLAs from the region would meet on Sunday to discuss the strategy to be adopted after the report was made public on Jan 6.

While chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appealed to the ministers to be cautious while making any comments on the subject,Srinivas urged the party leaders to observe restraint.Sources said the Congress party would decide on the names of its representatives who would attend the all-party meet convened by the Union home minister on January 6 after they receive the formal invitation. Asked about pressure from the grassrootslevel workers and leaders,a senior Congress leader,not wanting to be named,made it clear that the pressure would be more on the TCongress leaders.

Voters did not pay heed to the PCC chiefs repeated promises that AICC president Sonia Gandhi would give Telangana on a gold platter,and elected BJP candidate Lakshminarayana from Nizamabad.It only meant that the vote had gone in favour of those who championed the T caused better, he observed.He added that senior Congress leaders like Shabbir Ali,Indrakaran Reddy and G Vinod were defeated as voters were in no mood to pardon as they dillydallied on the T-issue.
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TRS,BJP for nothing short of T state


The TRS and the BJP reiterated their demand that nothing short of a separate state would be acceptable to them and that the Centre should introduce a bill for separate state in the budget session of Parliament.
TRS leader K T Rama Rao found fault with the Centre for asking political parties to name two represe-ntatives for an all-party meeting on January 6 to deliberate on the Srikrishna committee report.The meeting was convened by Union home minister P Chidamabaram.He said they should have made it mandatory for the party president plus another leader to attend meeting if it were to serve any purpose. Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu too demanded a bill in Parliament and urged the people to show restraint.TDP leaders felt that the ball was now in the court of Centre.TDP Telangana forum would meet on Friday to chalk out its next course of action,said a senior party leader N Janardhan Reddy.
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(source-toi)