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Sunday, May 30, 2010

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RAIN, RAIN, DONT GO AWAY


Same time, same prayer. Its Indias annual ritual as the land bakes and the heat takes its toll on the people. This year, we need the monsoons bounty more than ever before.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

A Role For Rahul Gandhi-Its time for him to show what his vision for the country is- Minhaz Merchant

On June 19, 2010, Rahul Gandhi turns 40. That was the age his father Rajiv became prime minister. So what are Rahuls views on foreign policy, On nuclear weapons security, On Pakistani state terrorism, On Maoism, On economic policy, On dynasty. Apart from a few thoughtful issues raised in his private correspondence with PM Manmohan Singh who at his press conference on Monday endorsed him as a future cabinet minister we know little of the AICC general secretarys worldview. While he rebuilds Congress electability in UP, Bihar, West Bengal and Kerala all governed by non-UPA parties and up for assembly polls in 2010-12 with his charismatic grassroots approach, Rahul must engage a broader national constituency with his thinking on Indias key strategic challenges. At 40, PM Rajiv Gandhi had a clear-eyed view of the world. He sought global nuclear disarmament. He implemented Panchayati Raj. He engaged with then Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto. He spearheaded IT revolution.
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The Gandhi scion has shown considerable skill in grassroots work

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Dynasty was farthest from his mind. His children Rahul and Priyanka were 14 and 12 when he became PM on October 31,1984. His wife Sonia was viscerally against politics. Nephew Varun was barely five and sisterin-law Maneka permanently estranged. Rajiv thus conducted his politics without a thought to Nehru-Gandhi dynastic succession unlike mother Indira who openly declared Sanjay her heir in the mid-1970s. Which model will Rahul follow His fathers or his grandmothers. Interestingly, great-grandfather Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was no admirer of dynastic politics either even though he allowed himself to be convinced to appoint daughter Indira Congress president in 1959 when she was 41. It was an act out of character with Nehrus principled belief in meritocracy. It was only after Pandit Nehrus sudden death in May 1964, and on new Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastris polite but well-meaning insistence, that Indira joined the cabinet as minister for information & broadcasting. The rest is dynastic history.

Can Rahul reverse that history Does he want to. The principal argument in favour of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is that it is legitimised by democracy : the Gandhis are voted to their Lok Sabha constituencies by huge margins. The 74 MPs in the current Lok Sabha who have serious criminal charges against them would be delighted by this argument. They too stand legitimised by our democracy: each won his/her Lok Sabha seats by a comfortable margin,just like the Gandhis, Scindias, Pilots, Deoras and Hoodas.
In an imperfect electoral democracy where feudal instincts traduce merit, history-sheeters with money and dynasts with bloodlines will often win elections. Neither should overestimate the legitimacy of such electoral endorsement. Rahul understands these arguments in all their delicate nuances. An intelligent and sensitive man whose common touch makes him a formidable political opponent, he concedes, he owes his position to his birth. He is not proud of a system that allows such feudal anomalies and wants to bring internal democracy to the Youth Congress with transparent elections so that young men and women of merit can enter politics without the shoehorn of a surname.

Rahul is silent about applying the same high standard to the top echelons of the party, including the post of president which his mother Sonia has held for 12 consecutive years a record in the Congresss 125-year history. (Even Jawaharlal Nehru was party president for a total of only eight years, four of them consecutively,from 1951 to 1954.) If Rahul has his fathers sense of noblesse oblige and he probably does this is a situation that should make him feel uncomfortable. Does he have the political will to do something about it At the moment, perhaps not. But the gentle decline of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has already been underwritten, partly by Rahul himself. He is unmarried so his own progeny are unlikely to ever be Indias PM. Varuns political extremism rules him out. Priyanka and her 10-year-old son Raihan Rajiv Vadra could keep the dynasty relevant for two decades but by the time Raihan is 35, in 2035, and ready for office, India will have a more enlightened electorate. It will reject feudocracy and endorse meritocracy. That does not automatically rule dynasts out.But it does not automatically rule them in.

What about the mini-dynasts who, like amoebae, have proliferated in the states since the 1980s, first tentatively, then increasingly assertively in the dynastic footsteps legitimised by the Nehru-Gandhis. They too will eventually wither in the face of an electorate that over the next generation will acquire education and empowerment. Neither surnames nor money will win votes from enlightened voters.
For the present though, Rahul will, despite his well-mannered reluctance, be PM within the next few years. How long he remains prime minister will depend on the policies he and his cabinet deploy to combat terrorism, Maoism, poverty, corruption and the divisiveness of caste, region and religion as India becomes part of a putative G-3 along with China and the US over the next decade.

At 40, PM Rajiv Gandhi was implementing policy. At 40, Rahul needs to spend as much time publicly articulating his own policy vision as he does refurbishing his 125-year-old party across India.(The writer is the author of a biography of Rajiv Gandhi and chairman of a media group).
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KCR for probe into Mahbubabad violence

Calling it an utter failure of the government,TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the violent incidents at Mahbubabad railway station in which nine people were injured. Holding the government responsible for the violence, KCR told a press conference that only a judicial inquiry would be able to establish the culprits behind the ugly situation. He said the Warangal district SP should also take the initiative in finding out as to who was behind the firing on protesters at Mahbubabad. Quoting media reports and eyewitnesses, KCR said it was Congress MLC K Murali who asked his gunmen to open fire on Telangana activists. The TRS and other pro-Telangana organisations had warned the government of dire consequences if Jagan undertakes yatra but the CM failed to take timely action and stop him from taking the yatra. If he had defied the directions of the government or the party leadership, he should have been taken into preventive custody, Rao said.

Todays incident reflects the mood of the people in the region. Political leaders should always react in accordance with the situation. But Jagan failed to do so, KCR said. Responding to DGP RR Girish Kumars statement that cases will be booked against him for making provocative comments, KCR said in fact cases should be booked against DGP for the violence that took place. Calling on the party cadre to make Saturdays Telangana bandh a success, KCR appealed to people, commercial establishments, employees and APSRTC not to ply buses.
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 3 hurt as MLAs gunmen open fire


As Kadapa MP set off for this town from Hyderabad on Friday morning to kickstart his Odarpu yatra, around 2000 strong mob gathered at the railway station here to block his entry into the town. The 100 cops posted here were inadequate to control the mob as a little after 11 am, they began pelting stones at pro-Jagan supporters, including Parkal MLA Konda Surekha. The cops resorted to firing rubber bullets and quelled the situation. But the peace was short-lived as the stone-pelting resumed again. Unable to face the volley of stones, PSOs of 2 MLAs and MLC escorted them to the safety of the waiting room from where Surekha was seen hurling stones back at the protesters.

But when they could not match stones raining on them, PSOs opened fire. In 9 rounds fired, 3 protesters Bollakunta Praful Raju (20) of V S Lakshmipuram of Mahbubabad, Bhuma Mudhakar (24) of Bayyaram (Khammam) and B Veerender (32) of Mahbubabad suffered injuries and were rushed to MGM hospital in Warangal. Raju is vicepresident of Bahujan Student Federation, while Mudhakar is a BSF leader in Khammam. Veerender is a pro-Telangana activist. Initially,it was presumed that Raju was killed in the firing but DGP RR Girish Kumar later said that the youth had only fallen unconscious. By the time Jagan was taken into preventive custody at Vangapalli railway station around 1.10 pm and driven back to Hyderabad, Mahbubabad railway station resembled a war zone with stones strewn all over the place and doors and windows of the waiting room broken. TV sets, announcement systems and signalling networks were damaged.

A police jeep and a private vehicle were set on fire and Section 144 was imposed in Mahbubabad. Protests erupted in some areas in Telangana and two RTC buses were burnt in Karimnagar district.
Adding to the heated drama, Konda Surekha tried to swallow some sleeping pills near Mahbubabad police station. An emotionally charged Surekha screamed, I will commit suicide, as she gulped the pills with water. She along with Mahbubabad MLA Kavitha was later admitted to a private hospital in Khammam. Another supporter of Jagan, Congress MLC Pulla Padmavati suffered a heart attack, her husband Pulla Bhaskar claimed.
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Naidu blames govt

The opposition TDP leader,N Chandrababu Naidu,on Friday held the government responsible for the violence that rocked Mahbubabad in Warangal district. Reacting to the incidents at the Mahanadu on Friday, Naidu said this incident had once again established that the CM had no control over his party MPs, MLAs and his colleagues. He felt that the government should have convinced Jagan not to undertake the yatra or it should have taken the Kadapa MP into preventive custody. Naidu said that the Rosaiah government was marked by indecision on all important issues.Jagans adamant attitude led to violence in Mahbubabad.
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Passengers huddle in fear amid bomb scare

It was a harrowing time for thousands of passengers as several trains running on Secunderabad-Kazipet section were stranded for 3-4 hours even as tension mounted at Mahbubabad railway station in Warangal where Telangana activists resorted to heavy stone-pelting on Friday morning. With rumours of a bomb being planted and railway lines being disrupted at several points between Vangapalli in Nalgonda district and Station Ghanpur in Warangal enroute to Mahbubabad,nearly 20 trains were stopped by the authorities. Passengers of Trivandrum-Korba Express, was stopped at Mahbubabad for over 3 hours, had tense moments as stones rained on their train. While window shutters were closed by the scared passengers,the windowpane of the guard cabin was broken in the stone-throwing by the mob. The Inter-City Express that YS Jaganmohan Reddy boarded at Secunderabad to reach Mahbubabad was stopped at Vangapalli station for several hours. SCR had to stop over a dozen trains, including the Bhubaneswar-Mumbai Konark Express and Bangalore-Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express, due to the bomb threat. However, SCR will not cancel any trains on May 29 but has in statement said that owing to the proposed agitations, some train services including MMTS trains may be cancelled at short notice. Such cancellations will be intimated to rail users through media. In a statement issued by SCR, several trains plying within the state and a few long distance trains were affected on Friday.

Due to the bomb threat, Bangalore-Patna (2295) was stopped at Khammam, Secunderabad-Gorakhpur train (2590) was stopped at Pembarti.Hyderabad-Hazrat Nizamuddin East Coast Express was stopped at Secunderabad. The Bangalore-Nizamuddin Rajdhani express was stopped at Aler and Bhubaneswar-Mumbai Konark Express was stopped at Warangal. Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Konark Express was stopped at Bibinagar and the Trivandrum-Korba Express was stopped at Mahbubabad. Two security special trains, carrying bomb disposal squads, GRP personnel and civil and mechanical engineering staff ran from Kazipet towards Jangaon and Mahbubabad from 10.05 am to check safety of tracks and then gave clearance for movement of passenger trains. A dozen short distance express and passenger trains were cancelled due to the law and order situation prevailing in Secunderabad. Trains such as Secunderabad-Guntur Express, Adilabad-Tirupati Krishna Express, Secunderabad-Sirpur Khagnagar Express, Secbad-Mancherial special were run till Kazipet. Bhadrachalam-Sirpur Khagnagar passenger was terminated at Yelgur. Several inter-city trains were also cancelled.

Several students appearing for the law exams of Kakatiya University at Warangal had to disembark at Vangapalli and take alternative modes of transport. A student who boarded a bus at Alair was livid as he missed the exam. At Muppallaramaram in Raghunathapalli,huge trees were felled by the protesters on the train tracks. Sources said the angry protesters removed pin reel clips and couplings on the tracks at Vangapalli, Raghunathapalli, Station Ghanpur and Karunapuram stations.Hundreds of agitators squatted on the tracks for several hours leading to disruption of rail traffic.It was around 1.30 pm when the authorities began restoring traffic by carrying out repairs and allowing trains for their onward journey.
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Jagan supporters set train on fire

Tension prevailed in Tirupati when hundreds of supporters of YS Jaganmohan Reddy set fire to Padmavathi Express in Tirupati at around 5 pm on Friday. While one bogie was completely destroyed, another bogie caught fire. Fire services personnel detached the bogies and fought hard to douse the flames. Railway CI Bhaskar Naidu said an inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
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OU campus on the boil again

Osmania University campus remained tense on Friday as students took out rallies to protest Congress MP YS Jaganmohan Reddys Odarpu yatra and the violence which ensued in Warangal. After a gap of four months, the campus once again reverberated with drum beats and slogans in support of a separate state. The first spell of protests took off around 12 noon after OU Joint Action Committee) members called for a march against the Odarpu yatra and the violence in Mahbubabad station in Warangal district.Over 50 students marched to NCC Gate of OU campus and blackened the statue of Rajiv Gandhi to mark their protest against the Congress administration. The students then marched to Tarnaka cross roads shouting slogans against Jagan and burnt his effigy. However, though the protesters blocked both the main entrances of the university,they did not disturb the PG examinations which were going on at various colleges on campus.

Meanwhile, in a meeting held by the JAC members, students called for a campus bandh on Saturday. Neither classes nor examinations will be held on Saturday. We have also given a call to hold dharnas at the doorstep of all Congress party leaders in Hyderabad, a JAC member said. He said there would be massive protests on campus on Saturday. More statues of Congress party leaders would be damaged in protests that will commence from Saturday, they threatened. We will demolish the statues of these party workers and replace them with statues of Telangana martyrs, protesters said.Women students of the university also held marches to the main gate and shouted slogans in support of the Telangana formation.
The sudden spurt of protests on campus have got several students worried about their academic future yet again. The last phase of agitations had derailed the academic schedule of the university. We are worried that this would start affecting our future yet again, said a student from MBA dept. Students also feared that the campus placement process, which was likely to start from June 1, would be affected. Some of the students, however, maintained that the agitation might not last long as there are only a few T agitators on campus at present. Most of them are on vacation. The agitation might not be severe this time, a student said. The university authorities have asked all students to stay back in their hostels and not participate in the agitation.
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OU exams postponed

Osmania University on Friday postponed MBA IVth semester examination scheduled for Saturday in view of the bandh call given by Telangana Rashtra Samithi.. BCA IInd year (IInd semester) exams scheduled for the same day has also been postponed. It is only a preventive measure. There is no change of the schedule of the remaining exams, said B S Rao, OU spokesperson. Officials said the revised dates will be put on the universitys website. Meanwhile, tension on OU campus on Friday did not affect the post-graduate exams.
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Eamcet on schedule

To address concerns of candidates appearing for Eamcet scheduled on May 30,officials assured on Friday that the exam will be conducted as per schedule. They said all arrangements have been for the exam.
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A bid to charter own yatra-Defiant Jagan Says Odarpu Plans Postponed, Not Cancelled

The decision of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to defy the Congress high command instead of mending fences is being perceived as an attempt by the son of former CM YSR to charter his own political agenda in the days to come with or without the backing of the Congress. After the initial snub by the high command which refused to entertain his ambition of succeeding his father, Jagan has sat quietly for long. If he does not make his move now, he would not be able to reap the dividends of the popularity built up by YSR, a loyalist claimed. Sources in the Jagan camp said the Kadapa MP decided to strike now as he perceived CM K Rosaiah to be weak or too indecisive to stop him. Accordingly, Jagan readied the plan to visit all the three regions and ensure that the goodwill among the people generated by YSR got transferred to him.

Jagan made this clear at the press conference outside his Banjara Hills residence after he was released from preventive custody by the cops on Friday evening. I will visit all the 23 district and console the family members of those who died of shock or committed suicide after YSRs demise. If TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao feels that the Odarpu yatra would be a threat to him, I will visit the Telangana districts only after the assembly by-elections are held, he said. Jagan is expected to make further moves only after visiting all the districts as part of his Odarpu yatra. But for the moment, they are awaiting the response from the Congress high command to the first act of defiance by the Kadapa MP.

In New Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhis political secretary Ahmed Patel indicated to some sections of the party on Friday evening that madam was unhappy with Jagan not heeding to the call of the party to call off the Warangal yatra. The ruling partys core committee also met on Friday evening where the matter was discussed but no decision was taken. AICC general secretary M Veerappa Moily was not present and the party weighed various options including summoning Jagan to New Delhi and issuing him a warning and slapping a show-cause notice, said a leader. However, no action if,  any is expected until the completion of the Rajya Sabha elections which are scheduled in the state on June 14. This is because Jagan still has a seizable number of MLAs and any action against him before the elections might prompt cross-voting by many Congress MLAs, said sources.

Besides, the high command has also to check out PRP president Chiranjeevi whom it has summoned to New Delhi for talks with regard to the Rajya Sabha elections. As of now, despite Jagan daring the party high command, it is he who is sitting pretty and the leadership which is in a dilemma as to what to do with him, said a Congress leader in New Delhi.
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Govt stops Jagan in his tracks-Kadapa MP Held, Released; Violence In Mahbubabad

Mahbubabad : Odarpu yatra of Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy triggered violence at Mahbubabad railway station in which at least nine protesters and six policemen were injured when PSOs of three elected representatives opened fire to counter the mob pelting stones on Friday afternoon. One of the injured is said to be in a serious condition after sustaining head injuries and a specialist team was rushed to Warangal MGM Hospital from Hyderabad. The four PSOs of Parkal MLA Konda Surekha, her husband and MLC Konda Murali and Mahbubabad MLA Malothu Kavitha were arrested late in the night and their weapons confiscated. Tension began to mount in Mahbubabad town by Friday morning itself after Jagan boarded Secunderabad Guntur Inter-City Express around 8.15 am with intention of kicking off his Odarpu yatra from this town in Warangal district. Determined to confront the MP, Telangana activists belonging to the TRS, BJP and other organisations began to gather at the railway station even as Jagan supporters, including Konda Surekha and others,too mobilised at the venue in order to welcome their leader with garlands.

However, the train was halted first near Jangaon after a bomb scare and then at Vangapalli in Nalgonda district a little after 10 am.The Kadapa MP was taken into preventive custody at the station at about 1.10 pm. Afterwards, Jagan along with legislators M Srinivasulu of Koduru constituency and Maheswar Reddy of Nirmal constituency was taken in a convoy belonging to Yadagirigutta police of Nalgonda district to his Hyderabad residence where he was released by the cops on personal bond around 3.30 pm. By the time Jagan started his journey from Secunderabad, Nagaraju, a BJP activist, allegedly tried to end his life by slitting his throat at Jangaon station, while Md Shabbir, another pro-Telangana activist, attempted self-immolation at the Mahbubabad court premises.
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Telangana groups have called for a bandh in the region on Saturday to protest the firing and violence at Mahbubabad railway station on Friday.The bandh call by Telangana JAC was backed by TRS and the Osmania University students JAC. RTC services may be affected in the morning.
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In T heartland, Kadapa MP finds no support


Vangapalli: Only 60 km from Hyderabad,Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy spent three hours in a train at Vangapalli railway station en route Mahbubabad but the scene outside did not seem to indicate that he had any popular support in a region fighting for a separate state. Even after the police took him into preventive custody and escorted him in their vehicles back to Hyderabad by road,the deserted roads clearly showed that Jagan was a loner in the Telangana region. For someone who has been trying to demonstrate that he had mass support across the three regions of the state, Vangapalli in Nalgonda district painted a picture in contrast. Outside the railway station, which is about 15 km from Bhongir, the police erected road blocks on the apprehension that a crowd might gather. However, they were in for a surprise as barring a few curious villagers,there were hardly any political workers of either the Congress party or Jagans supporters.

Five or six pairs of chappals strewn outside the railway station indicated that the police had used mild force on a motley group of people who tried to enter the railway station.On the contrary, many in the Secunderabad-Guntur Inter-City Express as well as in other trains that were held up vented their ire on the MP. We were stranded for four hours. What was our fault that we were made to suffer, a passenger shouted from one of bogies of a Hyd-bad-bound train that got the clearance after a long halt. Earlier, the Kadapa MP had left his Banjara Hills home in Hyderabad around 7 am for Secunderabad railway station and boarded the AC chair car bogie of the Inter-City Express. Unusually for what has been claimed to be a personal yatra, Jagan was accompanied by a 20-member team of Task Force sleuths led by DCP VB Kamalasan Reddy and about the same number of personnel in mufti to prevent any untoward incident. After the MP was taken into preventive custody at Vangapalli railway station at about 1.10 pm, he alongwith legislators M Srinivasulu of Koduru constituency and Maheswar Reddy of Nirmal constituency was taken in a convoy belonging to Yadagirigutta police of Nalgonda district to his Hyderabad residence where he was released by the cops on personal bond around 3.30 pm where he addressed a press confrerence vowing to finish his yatra someday.
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Friday, May 28, 2010

WARNS AGAINST JAGANS T YATRA -KCR to launch yet another T agitation after Dec 31

TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday felt that another strong push will pave the way for creation of separate T state and he would take the lead in doing so after December 31. Addressing a meeting of party workers,Rao said Aur ek dhakka mare tho Telangana ajata hai. He said if the Centre does not start the process of carving separate state after December 31,TRS would launch a bhayankar yudh. KCR said the sole aim of people of Telangana is creation of separate state but the people in Andhra region have been airing divergent views some want united state while others favour separate Andhra. Criticising Naidu for not taking a clear stand on T issue,he said this change of attitude after 2009 elections had forced T protagonist C Ramesh to resign from the state assembly and join TRS.
Referring to the Odarpu Yatra of Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy in Warangal district, Rao said that it was meant to create confusion among Telangana people. He alleged that Jagan wanted to come to the district with his 3000 private army to show his strength even after the Telangana people and organisations had expressed their opposition to the yatra. Rao called the proposal to distribute Rs 64 lakh to the families of those who died of shockfollowing the death of YSR in a chopper crash last year as ridiculous.He said the yatra would cost the exchequer about Rs 20 crore to provide security to Jagan and facilities to his private army.It is a Jabardasti yatra,he said.
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Sonia cant stop Jagan - The Kadapa MP Declines To Oblige Cong High Command

A confrontation seemed inevitable in Warangal district on Friday as Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy vowed to go ahead with his Odarpu yatra despite the party high command telling him to call it off. After a bomb scare and series of rallies to protest the yatra on Thursday, Warangal was on the boil as the district administration deployed over 3,000 police personnel to counter pro-Telangana activists who vowed to prevent the yatra from entering the district at any cost. During the day, while outwardly expressing support for the Jagan yatra,the state government made moves to persuade the Kadapa MP to call it off. Jagan is an MP and AICC member, and he does not need the states permission to visit Warangal district, chief minister K Rosaiah said on Thursday morning. But with reports of protests and rallies and other disturbances coming in from Warangal, CM convened a meeting of his ministers and decided to urge Jagan to put off his visit.

Accordingly, ministers Sabita Indra Reddy and N Raghuveera Reddy went to Jagans residence in Hyderabad late in the afternoon and conveyed the mood in the Cabinet over his yatra. However, according to sources, Jagan refused to budge and said that he would begin his Warangal yatra from Mahabubabad as scheduled on Friday morning. But Mahabubabad, from where Jagan is scheduled to kick off his yatra, was rocked by a series of protests and a bomb scare that brought the town to a halt and had the cops in a tizzy. Around 1 pm, a passenger at Mahabubabad bus stand reported to the authorities the presence of an unclaimed bag. The police immediately cordoned off the bus station and cancelled all services. A note found in the bag claimed that united Andhra supporter Jagan will be greeted with bombs if he visits Warangal district, and was signed by a little-known outfit called Telangana Liberation Army. The local cops could not make much headway with the bag and it finally took a bomb squad from Hyderabad to take to the outskirts of the town and defuse it.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010




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T panel will begin field visits in June: Duggal

Srikrishna Committee will arrive at a decision on the contentious Telangana issue by the end of August or September, panel member secretary VK Duggal said on Wednesday. It would then concentrate on preparing its recommendations to be submitted to the Centre by December 31. Speaking to mediapersons at the end of three-day consultations with various groups, Duggal said that the committee had heard the views of all political parties and groups and had received representations from them. It would hold a second round of consultations only if it needs any clarification from them. The committee will analyse  issue based on oral presentations and representations made. To make final decision, the help of expert teams will be taken and five senior consultants will be involved in the job, he said. The consultation part is now entering the final phase. We hope to finish this by the middle of June. In the coming weeks, 10 to 15 groups will be covered. The last round of consultation will be held between June 15 to 18. After June 18, the committee members will conduct field visits till the end of July, Duggal said. Referring to the authenticity of documents and data submitted by political parties and organisations, Duggal said, You must leave it to the wisdom of the committee. It is not difficult to segregate the grain from the chaff.  Asked if the proposed Telangana tour of Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy would cause hurdles for the committee in visiting the districts in the region, Duggal said the chief secretary had assured them of providing security and that they could continue to do their work unhindered. We do not plan to visit the places which Jaganmohan Reddy would be visiting on those very dates, he added.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Jagan tour will trigger violence: KCR

Strongly opposing the proposed Odarpu yatra by Congress MP Jaganmohan Reddy from Warangal on May 28, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday threatened that if it was not called off, there would be large-scale violence like the one state witnessed during December 2009 when T agitation was at its peak. Addressing a press conference,KCR said that he was opposing Jagans yatra in Telangana districts as it would instigate regional feelings. Telangana JAC has urged Warangal district police not to allow Jagan to take up the yatra lest it may result in law and order problem and urged chief minister K Rosaiah to intervene and see that the yatra was called off. Pointing out that Telangana Congress MPs also urged party high command to stop Jagan from taking up Odarpu yatra in Warangal keeping in mind the opposition from Telangana organisations. Alleging that government did not allow BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and other Telangana leaders to take out a yatra in the districts when the movement was at its peak on the pretext that law and order problem will arise, he questioned governments adamant attitude towards Jagans yatra in Telangana. KCR also took objection to the unveiling of the late YSRs statues at 45 places in Telangana districts by Jagans followers without seeking permission. Telangana JAC chairman M Kodandaram said the Warangal JAC leaders submitted memorandum to the district police not to allow the yatra.
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Warangal shuts down in protest, District Tense, Jagan All Set To Launch His OdarpuYatra On May 28

Sending a strong signal to Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, people of Warangal district observed a complete bandh on Tuesday against Congress leaders proposed Odarpuyatra from May 28. Except for some medical shops, there was total shutdown in the district. The bandh by Telangana JAC, TRS and other opposition parties in protest against the Odarpuyatra was peaceful. Tense situation prevailed at Kazipet junction where Congress workers tried to construct platform for late chief minister YSR  statue. Heated arguments ensued between ex-MLA, Warangal West,Dasyam Vinaya Bhaskar and his followers and Congress leaders when the former tried to stop the construction work. The verbal duel continued for over three hours before police entered the scene and pacified the warring groups. Warangal municipal corporation commissioner MM Naik and RDO Srinivas later assured that no permission was given to install the statue at the spot. Students belonging to TJAC and TRS activists took out vehicle rallies across the district and enforced bandh. Private and government offices and petrol bunks, cinema theatres,shops and other business establishments were closed.

APSRTC cancelled bus services to the Agency and remote areas. Due to protests in front of bus depots in several mandals, 987 buses could not ply. More than 100 TRS activists were taken into custody during a protest at Hanamkonda city bus station. Doctors also took part in the protest in front of the MGM hospital and raised slogans against Jagan. The response to the bandh was total in revenue divisions of Jangaon, Mahabubabad, Mulugu, Narsampet and Parkal. TRS and student JAC activists enforced the bandh particularly in Mahabubabad where Jagan is supposed to launch his yatra.Several protesters were arrested. Earlier in the day, BJP workers staged a sit-in near the Warangal bus station obstructing the vehicular movement. They raised slogans against Jagan. Jagan is undertaking the yatra for five days to meet families of those who died due to shock following his fathers death.
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Osmania varsity students make strong case for Telangana state

Osmania University student JAC on Tuesday made a strong plea for bifurcation of state on the grounds that students in the region were suffering due to lack of employment and education opportunities. They alleged that people from other regions were grabbing jobs at the expense of the local youth. This discrimination by successive Govts, they said, had given rise to a strong feeling for a separate state and Telangana agitation in November last stirred up strong sentiments among the youth. They said several students had even committed suicide for the cause while many others had to face the police lathis and bullets. The 10-member student JAC delegation was accompanied by two students B Hanumantha Rao and Swapna who suffered lathi and bullet injuries during the agitation. They told the committee that police resorted to firing and lathicharge on students while they were conducting peaceful agitation for Telangana on the university campus.

When Duggal asked the students to explain the reasons for suicides by students, JAC members said the sentiment was running so high that the youths resorted to the extreme measures to highlight the need for bifurcation of the state and draw the attention of Union government to the injustice meted to Telangana people in employment, higher education and budget allocations. K Venkata Chary, father of Srikantha Chary who was the first student to commit suicide during the agitation also explained the reasons for the sacrifice made by his son to the committee.

Telangana Gazetted Officers Association also presented a 300-page report to the committee illustrating how Telangana employees were denied promotions to gazetted posts in every department. Association president V Srinivas Goud said the successive state governments violated the Presidential orders and mulki rules in the government jobs and promotions. The state government brought all gazetted posts under the state cadre and promoted non-Telangana officials, he said. He pointed out that many Andhra officials were promoted and appointed on deputation in Telangana. He said that many secretary level posts in the state secretariat were given to Andhra officials.

Another delegation from Samakyandra Samithi Party led by G Kumar Choudhary Yadav submitted a memorandum to the Srikrishna Committee urging not to bifurcate the state and develop all backward districts by allocating special funds.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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Telangana issue before able panel, says PM

There is no proposal before UPA Govt. for creation of smaller states and the demand for a separate Telangana is being looked into by an eminent committee headed by former justice BN Srikrishna, PM Manmohan Singh said. There is no such proposal for creation of states before the government, Singh said when asked whether there was any move to create new states. He noted that there were demands for the creation of a separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh which has been referred to a committee. That demand has been referred to a committee under a very distinguished former judge of the Supreme Court justice Srikrishna, the Prime Minister said. Singh also said he cannot offer comments on the issue of creation of new states in the country pending the receipt of the report of the Srikrishna committee. The committee is presently hearing all parties on the T issue and is scheduled to submit its report to Centre by the end of this year. Apart from political parties, various private organisations and associations are submitting their recommendations to the committee. The three major views that are emerging are for the creation of Telangana, for keeping the state united,and merging the Rayalaseema region with Telangana in case the state gets divided. Keeping in mind the diverse views, Srikrishna has been hinting at arriving at a middle path, though he has not specified as to what it is.
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Jai Andhra leaders fail to impress T-panel

Representatives of Jai Andhra movement are learned to have failed to provide strong evidence that they had the peoples support and that political parties were associated with the movement since 1956, during their one-our long presentation before the Srikrishna Committee on Monday. The Srikrishna Committee reportedly felt that Jai Andhra was more of an orchestrated movement. Andhra JAC convener S Krishna Murthy told newsmen after the meeting that they had told the committee about the discrimination the Andhra region had suffered with regard to employment, budget allocations for development and injustice meted out in allocation of irrigation water from Godavari and Krishna rivers. The JAC leaders also urged the committee to recommend Vijayawada as the capital of Andhra state.
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