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Wednesday, September 29, 2010



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Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Keshava differs with KCR on T natives

CWC member K Keshava Rao said only those people of other regions who settled in the Telangana region before November 1,1956,would be considered as Telangana people. Rejecting the remarks of TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao that all those from Seemandhra born in Telangana were Telangana people, Keshava Rao said such comments would send wrong signals.In fact,this is not at all an issue now.It can be settled once the Telangana state is created.Till then,raking up such an issue does not augur well for the Telangana movement, the CWC member told media here on Saturday.

He said irrespective of their origin,the people who lived in the region before the formation of state of Andhra Pradesh could be considered as people of Telangana. The status of those who settled later in the region should be decided only after the bifurcation of the state,he added. Stating that this was not a serious matter like citizenship,the former PCC chief said the issue could be settled by arriving at a cut off date after the formation of separate Telangana state, he said.
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Aid for T-martyrs : Cong steals a march over TRS

Stealing the thunder from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS),the Telangana Congress MPs,MLAs and MLCs have decided to hold their first meeting in Ramagundam of Karimnagar district on October 2 and disburse Rs one lakh to each family of victims who died for the separate state cause.The elected representatives of Congress had earlier announced that they would donate the money from their pockets to provide the compensation.While the MPs are donating Rs one lakh each,the MLAs and MLCs will contribute a minimum of one day salary.Several other party leaders are also expected to contribute to the cause.

Party sources said Ramagundam was chosen as the first venue for distributing the compensation as it had witnessed about 25 deaths and suicides for the Telangana cause.Contrasting it with the Odarpu yatra of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy,the leaders said that it will be a low key affair and added that one meeting will be held every subsequent Sunday after October 2 for giving the compensation.While all the Telangana Congress leaders will participate in the October 2 meeting,the subsequent ones will be limited to those from the respective districts
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The leaders said the identification of the total number of such families for whom the compensation will be given is being done with the help of the DCC presidents and ZP chairpersons.The list for Karimnagar Dist will be ready in a couple of days, said senior Telangana Congress leaders Palvai Goverdhan Reddy and B Kamalakar Rao. Although the TRS had announced that it would distribute Rs one lakh each to the families of the victims of the Telangana cause,it still has to raise the cash.The party had said that it would raise the money by hosting road shows,music concerts and Tollywood star cricket events. However,they are yet to hold the same.In the meantime,the Telangana Congress has stolen a march over the TRS, said a leader.

The idea of giving compensation to the Telangana families was inspired by the AICCs decision on the eve of the first death anniversary of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on September 2 this year that it would give a compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to the families of those persons who had died of shock or committed suicide after the tragic demise of YSR.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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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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Monday, September 20, 2010

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T - congress to hold martyrs meet every Sunday

Telangana Congress leaders on Sunday have decided to hold a martyrs meet every Sunday beginning Oct 2 and extend financial help to the families of those who lost their lives for the cause of Telangana. Congress MPs,MLAs and MLCs,who met at MLC Yadava Reddys house on Sunday,decided to form an executive committee to identify those who died for the Telangana cause.Congress MP G Vivekananda agreed to be the convener of the committee,while MP K Rajagopal Reddy and MLA L Laxma Reddy have been named co-conveners. The first meeting (Tyagamurthula Samsmarana Sabha ) to console the victims families and extend financial assistance would begin from Ramagundam in Karimnagar on October 2.

Medchal MLA K Laxma Reddy had announced a contribution of Rs 10 lakh for the victims families,while some others have decided to contribute one months salary.Meanwhile,each MP from the region has agreed to donate Rs 2 lakh for distribution.Though some Telangana ministers did not attend the meeting, they assured to do their bit,apart from roping in philanthropists for the cause.The Congress has 51 MLAs and 12 Lok Sabha MPs from the Telangana region.
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KCR seeks T quota in prisons dept

Rosaiah govt may have accepted the demand of 42 per cent quota for lawyers from Telangana region in nominated posts,but its woes are far from over. The TRS now wants to rake up a new demand of similar quota in recruitment of jobs in state prisons department.Addressing a group of Congress workers from Medak who joined TRS on Sunday at Telangana Bhavan,party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao threatened to launch a fresh agitation if the government did not agree to their demand of 42 per cent quota for people from Telangana when jail warder posts are filled up.The government had recently issued notification to fill 700 warder posts,he informed.

According to him,out of 4000 executive employees in jails,only 544 belonged to Telangana region and in ministerial posts only 180 out of 1000 employees were from Telangana.This proves the injustice meted out to Telangana in the recruitment of government jobs in the prisons department, he said.Referring to the criticism he had received on his statement that people born in Telangana are natives of Telangana, KCR said he made the statement in a broader perspective.
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PART WAYS WITH AP DOCS ASSN - T region docs set up separate association

Doctors from Telangana region formed Telangana Government Doctors Association (TGDA) on Saturday detaching themselves from the existing AP Government Doctors Association (APGDA). APGDAs term was completed on June 31 and thereafter elections were not conducted by the association in the Telangana region.Finally,the doctors from Telangana,who have disassociated themselves from APGDA soon after the term,formed a separate association with 1,800 doctors in 10 districts.

In the afternoon,Telangana doctors went to the APGDAs office at Koti and a scuffle broke out when they demanded a space for the new association when the doctors representing APGDA said that they would look into the issue. However,the issue was settled amicably with the TGDA conducting its first meeting in the city on Saturday.
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TRS bid to soften biz barons ahead of CEOs meeting

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Sunday said that its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao would make it clear to the captains of industry during the CEOs meeting on Wednesday that industrial health in the region is directly related to their demand for creation of a separate state of Telangana. The not-so-veiled threat comes a week after chief minister K Rosaiah assured the Federation of Indian Chambers and Commerce (Ficci) that the Telangana trouble will not come in the way of their investment plans in Andhra Pradesh.

If Hyderabad continues to be part of Andhra Pradesh,there will be no stability in the region due to agitations for a separate state.This could hamper industrial growth.Therefore,for the region to develop,a separate state should happen.This will be KCRs message to the industry during the meeting, TRS politburo member B Vinod Kumar told TOI on Sunday.
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T agitations will hit business,KCR to warn honchos


During his two-hour meeting with CEOs on Wednesday,to be attended by industrialists and representatives of IT companies and MNCs,TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is set to hold forth on reasons for division of the state. The TRS is not against the flow of investments into the region or the state.Even businessmen from other regions are welcome to set up shop here.We are only against the political hegemony of people from non-Telangana regions, party politburo member B Vinod Kumar told TOI.

While expressing the hope that the Centre would bend to TRS demand on division,Kumar also held out a subtle threat. He said KCR would make it clear that if that does not happen,his party would intensify the agitation and this could create problems for industry in the long run. KCR will,however,assure them that the region will continue to be the best destination for investments even after becoming a separate state, he said.

Industrialists from the other regions will also be taking part in this summit,Kumar claimed.Apart from KCR,TRS ideologue K Jayashankar and D Sravan will represent the party at the meet,he said.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

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Govt bows to T-advocates - Agrees To Equitable Representation For Telangana Lawyers In Judicial Posts

In a partial concession to the agitating Telangana advocates,the state government on Saturday agreed to consider equitable representation to genuine advocates from the region in the posts of govt pleaders, asst government pleaders and standing counsels. The agreement was signed between the cabinet sub-committee comprising three ministers and the Telangana advocates after prolonged talks on Saturday.The three-member committee of the ministers appointed by chief minister K Rosaiah on August 23 has taken into consideration the demands of the Telangana lawyers and assured to consider them by giving due equitable representation to genuine Telangana advocates in the matter of appointment of law officers in the High Court and tribunals.To ensure justice to all sections of society,due consideration will also be given to advocates belonging to SC/ST/BC,minorities,women etc in appointing the law officers.The exercise will be completed in three weeks, said the agreement.There was no mention of the 42 per cent quota as demanded by the T advocates.

While the cabinet sub-committee was represented by law minister M Venkataramana,information minister J Geeta Reddy and forest minister P Ramachandra Reddy,the advocates were led by lawyers JAC convenor M Rajender Reddy,co-convenor T Sriranga Rao and included Telangana MPs Madhu Yaskhi Goud and G Vivek. Soon after the agreement,jubilant Telangana advocates called off their proposed march to the Secretariat on Monday.The three ministers also drove down to Gandhi Hospital and ensured that the five advocates who were on a fast broke it following the state agreeing to consider their demands.The advocates,however,warned that the agitation will be revived in case the agreement is not implemented within the stipulated time of three weeks.

The agreement made no mention of the other two demands of the Telangana advocates,namely that Advocate General D V Sitarama Murthy should be removed and all cases registered against the agitating advocates in the Andhra Pradesh High Court should be withdrawn.Sources said while the former was rejected by the state,it was informally agreed upon that the cases will be withdrawn. However,the partial concession granted to the Telangana advocates is expected to create some unrest in the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.Even before the agreement was signed,elected representatives from Seemandhra condemned the agitation and described it as a violation of the Constitutional rights of the people of the two regions.

On Saturday,students and advocates in the Rayalaseema and Andhra regions staged demonstrations against the 42 per cent quota demanded by the Telangana advocates in the law officers appointment and the stalling of APPSC group I exams by Telangana protesters.Further,the Seemandhra JAC of students announced that they would observe Samaikhyaandhra Day on September 21 and 22 by boycotting the classes in protest against the demands of the Telangana advocates.Now that the agreement has been signed,there are chances of more protests in the other two regions, said a police official.
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Justice Nagarjuna withdraws resignation

Following a long discussion with AP High Court Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru at his residence on Saturday,Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy is believed to have withdrawn his resignation.Justice Reddy,who had tendered his resignation following the violent incidents and unrest in the High Court caused by the Telangana advocates agitation,conveyed this to the CJ through a letter on Saturday evening in which he described the three-day attack on the AP High Court as a designed attack by vested interests.In your absence,the happenings on September 14,15 and 16 were the worst of the nightmares that have brought down the glory of the great institution that nurtured me as its son, Justice Nagarjuna Reddy is believed to have told CJ Kakru in his letter.I realised now that the cause of the judiciary will be better served by my being with it rather than getting out of it, Justice Reddy said in his letter while thanking all for the overwhelming response they had shown for him.
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Seemandhra MLAs seek protection for non-locals - Delegation Meets DGP,Says Seemandhra People Face Threat

The regional differences between the Seemandhra elected representatives and their Telangana counterparts continued to mount with the former meeting the DGP and demanding protection for their people.A delegation of seven Andhra-Rayalaseema MLAs and MLCs met DGP K Aravinda Rao on Saturday and demanded protection for the lives of the people of their regions and their property in Hyderabad and other Telangana districts. Led by government whip S Sailajanath,the delegation told the DGP that a high level of insecurity has gripped the people from these two regions living in Hyderabad.We demand special security for the Seemandhra people in the state capital.We also want a constant vigil by the police in the areas where the people from these two regions live in large numbers as there is an apprehension among them that they will be attacked by Telangana zealots, an MLA who was part of the delegation told. The Seemandhra leaders also raised the issue of the ministers from their regions being attacked while carrying out their official duties in the T districts.While housing minister Shilpa Mohan Reddys convoy was stoned by T activists in Karimnagar district on Thursday,municipal administration minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy was greeted with protests in Khammam district on Saturday.

The ministers from the Seemandhra regions are not able to move around in the Telangana region.There are threats to individual families in many areas in the state capital.There is need to instill confidence among the Seemandhra people that there would be no attacks on them, Sailajanath told the media later. MLAs Anam Vivekananda Reddy and Labbi Venkataswamy were also part of the delegation that met the DGP.Dubbing the agitation of the Telangana lawyers seeking 42 per cent quota as an assault on the constitutional rights of the people from the other regions,the chief whip said the government should treat their agitation as a war against the state and the constitution and take strict action against them.

Decrying the Telangana leaders contention that injustice was being done in the appointment of government pleaders in the state,Vijayawada MP L Rajagopal said even the people who settled in Telangana decades ago were being labelled as outsiders by T supporters. The meeting with the DGP was the culmination of a series of moves by the Seemandhra leaders since Friday and a fallout of the agitation by the Telangana advocates in the AP High Court since last Monday. The group of Seemandhra leaders led by Sailajanath had met CM K Rosaiah,home minister Sabita Indra Reddy and information minister J Geeta Reddy on Friday.  Congress MLC Rudraraju Padmaraju said they would now meet the governor and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and convey to them the feeling of insecurity among the non-locals living in Hyderabad.
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Friday, September 17, 2010

BUT NO CHANGE IN BJPS STAND - TRS to observe T Merger Day today

Hyderabad: In a marked departure from the last few years,the TRS and the Telangana JAC will observe Telangana Merger Day on Friday,instead of Telangana Liberation Day,while the BJP said it would continue to call it a T liberation day.In fact,for many years,September 17 had passed off unnoticed in the state until the agitation for separate Telangana was relaunched by TRS in 2001.Since then,the TRS has been observing the day as T Liberation Day,but has decided to observe it as martyrs day henceforth in order not to hurt the Muslim community who it feels perceive the definition of liberation as anti-Nizam.

However,except for the change in the definition,the TRS will continue to do the same things on that day as before.Telangana JAC convener M Kodandaram said the JAC including the TRS will hoist the tricolour and the Telangana flag in Hyderabad and all the districts and observe two-minute silence in memory of the T martyrs.The only addition this time would be that the JAC members will meet with the families of those students and youth who allegedly committed suicide for the separate state cause since the T movement intensified and offer some financial help to them,Kodandaram said.

However,the proposal of TRS to celebrate the martyrs day has been opposed by the BJP and the Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen.While the BJP objected the JAC for observing September 17 as Telangana Merger Day instead of T liberation day and said that it would not join TRS in the celebrations,the MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi warned the state government about the celebrations.Its the governments responsibility to protect the lives of the Muslims with T liberation day coinciding with likely verdict on Ayodhya issue on Friday, he said.Meanwhile,OU JAC has decided to go ahead with T Liberation day celebrations on campus despite police denying them permission.
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IT minister creates furore,supports lawyers quota stir

Hyderabad: Queering the pitch for the state government in resolving the strike by the Telangana advocates over their quota demand,IT minister from Nalgonda Komatireddy Venkat Reddy threw in his lot with the striking advocates and said their demand was genuine and should be conceded to. The IT ministers assertion to the media came minutes after the three-member cabinet sub-committee comprising J Geeta Reddy,M Venkataramana and P Ramachandra Reddy took pains to explain for the second time in 24 hours that that there was no such bias in the appointments to nominated posts as is being alleged.The committee was constituted to examine the alleged injustice meted out to lawyers from the Telangana region.

There is nothing wrong in asking for 42 per cent reservation.Their demands are justified.I express full solidarity with their struggle.However,lawyers should carry out their agitation in a peaceful manner.I will take the matter to the chief minister, said Venkat Reddy. This statement was enough for cabinet colleagues to vent their ire at him.One of the ministers who did not want to be quoted said,Here comes another headache. We are trying our best to defuse such uneasy situations by putting forth the governments version.First,the political party used students from the region to spread unrest,now they are misleading advocates with the same intention.How can he fall prey to the agenda put forth by a political party with vested interests Some of the ministers said they see a clear political conspiracy behind the whole agitation.If advocates from Telangana have doubts about poor representation,they should have pointed out the discrepancy.Instead,they are refusing to come to talks.How can they insist on ministers coming for talks.They must have a dialogue with the government to solve their problems, one minister said.
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T lawyers stir stalls HC proceedings


Most of the 15-20 High Court division bench courts could not begin work at the scheduled time of 10.30 am as the advocates stayed away on Thursday.However,Justices C V Nagarjuna Reddy,Nooty Ramamohana Rao,Seethapathy,G Raghuram and Ramesh Ranganathan went ahead with the proceedings and had to encounter protests from the striking advocates.The action then shifted to the court of Justice Nagarjuna Reddy where the Telangana and Seemandhra advocates nearly came to blows and uprooted the chairs nearby to hurl at each other.At this juncture,Justice T Meena Kumari entered Justice Nagarjuna Reddys court and sat on a dharna.Her contention was that she had called off the heavy police presence in the court on Wednesday on the assurance of the T-advocates that their agitation would be peaceful and that they had broken it by resorting to violence.This calmed the tense atmosphere and the protesters left the scene for Justice Nagarjun Reddy to continue the proceedings amidst heavy police protection.But it lasted just for 45 minutes as the T-advocates returned to continue their protests.With the work completely paralysed,five judges,Justices Meena Kumari,A Gopal Reddy,L Narasimha Reddy,R Subhash Reddy and Noushad Ali sat in Justice Nagarjuna Reddys court during lunch hour to bring the situation under control.The five judges then brought together the leaders of the two warring groups and brokered a peace.In another dramatic development,TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao made an appearance and expressed his solidarity with striking lawyers.He told them that the TRS was preparing a campaign to seek quota for the Telangana people and urged them not to give up the fast.
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AG misled govt on quota stir

Advocate general D V Sitarama Murthy has misled the state government on the employment statistics in the judiciary,claimed Sarasani Satyam Reddy,former president of the AP High Court Advocates Association on Thursday.We accept only those who were born here prior to 1956 and their descendants as Telanganites,he said.Satyam Reddy who is on an indefinite strike along with two other advocates - Jyothi Kiran and Vijay Kumar Goud - demanding 42% share in government legal appointments spoke to TOI from the hunger strike camp at the AGs office in the HC.Their fast entered the fourth day on Thursday.They also vowed to intensify their stir as the state is showing non-Telanganite officials under T quota. TNN
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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