Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday indicated that a decision on separate state of Telangana was unlikely in the near future in the absence of a consensus among political parties in Andhra Pradesh.The minister said parties in AP must help the Centre find a solution to Telangana issue but they are divided and a solution cannot be thrust down their throats. Chidambaram said,This is a unique situation where political parties in Andhra Pradesh are divided down the middle.Congress,TDP,CPI,CPM are all divided. The only party which claims to be undivided is BJP because it has only two members. He added,"We cannot thrust a solution down the throats of political parties who represent the people. He said so far as the Congress party was concerned,the effort was to unite the party and find a solution that was acceptable to all Congress MPs and MLAs.This was what was being tried by his colleague and Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. "The other parties must all do the same thing.For example,Telugu Desam must try to do the same thing.Unite all TD members to find an agreed solution.It is easy to say you have not found a solution but anyone who tells us we have not found a solution has no solution either,"he said.
On critics accusing him of going back on the promise of Telangana,he said,The government took a position and as Home minister I made the statement on Dec 9,2009 and then when protests broke out in other parts of AP,the government reconsidered the matter and revised its position and I made the second statement on Dec 23,2009. I was speaking on behalf of the government.So if it is anyones case that the Home minister can unilaterally announce or withdraw an announcement one must be very nave to think so, he said.
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No more resignations,say T Congmen -Settle For Dialogue With Azad, Claiming High Command Is Serious About Resolving T Issue
Unable to agree as to what should be done with regard to the rejection of their resignation letters by assembly speaker Nadendla Manohar, T Congress leaders on Tuesday decided to skip the whole issue altogether and,instead,focus on the talks with AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad,with whom they have scheduled yet another meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. While the TRS legislators have yet again submitted their resignations to the speaker,the TDP Telangana Forum leaders are awaiting the decision of the Telangana Congress leaders to submit their quit letters once again so that they can follow suit. However,it became clear on Tuesday that the T Congress leaders were through with the resignation drama. For the record,one leader said they were satisfied with the way Azad was handling the T trouble in the party,but indicated that they would not hesitate to resign if the situation warranted.
Skirting the resignation issue on which the T Congress is a divided house,the leaders said the talks on the separate state are more important than the resignations. Claiming that the high command is serious about finding a solution to the Telangana issue in two or three months,BC welfare minister Basavaraj Saraiah said: We are satisfied with the talks. Participating in the T-Congress flag festival in Warangal, Saraiah,who returned from New Delhi on Tuesday morning to launch the festival,said the party would carry forward the Telangana movement in a Gandhian way.When asked about the resignations,he said the quit letters were submitted in the proper format and that they would consult legal experts on the legality of the rejection.
Nizamabad MP Madhu Goud Yaskhi told TOI: We are not going back on the resignations.Resignations for the sake of resignations do not serve any purpose.They should be part of an overall strategy.We will press for the acceptance of the resignations the moment we perceive any attempt by the partys central leaders to divert the attention from the core issue of Telangana. Thus given a way out by the party high command,the T leaders of Congress,who had earlier thundered that that they would take part in the talks only if a positive decision on Telangana was announced first,have now climbed down and agreed for a dialogue.
According to sources,many of the leaders who are still in New Delhi,have sought the services of R Vidyasagar Rao,former chief engineer of Central Water Commission,to advise them on the sharing of vital assets once the state is divided. Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkata Reddy told TOI from Delhi that their Tuesday night meeting with Azad was a step forward in the direction of finding a solution to the Telangana problem.This time,the party high command appears to be really serious about the state formation.They want to address all the contentious issues of the Telangana demand.The talks are going in the right direction, Reddy,who is a member of the steering committee,said.On Wednesday at their scheduled meeting with Azad,the T-Congress leaders are expected to raise two issues pertaining to the status of Hyderabad and matters relating to irrigation.
There is no controversy over Hyderabad. It is an inseparable part of Telangana.We will first demand a commitment on this from Azad.Then we can address the fears and apprehensions expressed by those opposing the division of the state and evolve the safeguards needed to protect their interests, said B Kamalakar Rao,a PCC spokesperson who is involved in the preparation of the reports for Wednesdays meeting. But the point that the T Congress leaders seem to miss is that the division of the state and sharing of assets cannot be decided by a party functionary.There are serious issues which require the people running the government to ponder over.No AICC functionary can give assurances on such vital issues, said one state government official.
Major Climbdown
The T Congress leaders,who have earlier thundered that they would not take back resignations and agree to talks unless the high command gave a positive assurance on T,now aver that resignations would not serve any purpose.In case a positive outcome is unlikely,they will press for acceptance of their resignations,they say
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