On a politically quiet Saturday, speaker Nadendla Manohar dropped a bombshell by rejecting all the 101 resignations of the Telangana legislators before flying off to London in the evening.The speakers office faxed Manohars decision to the media.It said the speaker has rejected the resignations of all the MLAs on the ground that they were done under emotional stress and pressure and that Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar was consulted on it.
Quickly condemning the speakers decision, all the Telangana parties were up in arms.The Telangana Forum of the TDP has called for an emergency session on Sunday morning.TRS called it unethical, undemocratic and unfortunate while the Telangana Congress leaders said they would submit the quit letters again. Telangana Political JAC convenor M Kodandaram demanded that Manohar should quit for having buckled under pressure from the UPA government and the Seemaandhra leaders. Almost all the parties said the decision was unilateral.
Whatever campaigns or agitations that the Telangana leaders undertake,the person at the centre of the decision would be away in London attending a speakers conference.According to sources,Manohar would be away till the middle of August.The speakers decision caught all the political parties by surprise.The Telangana Forum of the TDP,TRS,Congress and BJP have called for meetings on Sunday.Some of them are likely to submit their resignations again to the legislative assembly secretary on Sunday. Congress sources said this was the ruling partys answer to the resignations move which it perceived to be masterminded by TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.By rejecting the resignations,the high command has undone what KCR engineered,and also given a way out for the Telangana Congress leaders who quit, they said.
Sources said some of the parties may check the legal option of challenging the decision in the court,but the speakers office is said to be confident of the legality of their decision.The Telangana Congress leaders are likely to reconsider their scheduled visit to New Delhi on Monday while the other parties are likely to announce their next plan of action on Sunday. According to police sources,the recent developments culminating in the rejection of the resignations could give common cause to all the parties and outfits championing the Telangana cause to come together.Meanwhile,chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is scheduled to go to Nellore on Sunday for a two-day visit.
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TALKS WITH AZAD - Jana, Keshava to head T panel
Even as AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad made an unscheduled stop in the city on his way to Gulbarga,after much squabbling,the T-Congress leaders on Saturday announced a 22-member panel to hold discussions with Azad on the contentious separate state issue.The talks are scheduled to begin in New Delhi on Monday. Panchayat Raj minister K Jana Reddy and Rajya Sabha MP K Keshava Rao are the chairmen of the panel.Releasing the list,Jana Reddy said a team of 12 members would be chosen from this list for the talks with Azad depending on the subjects that come up for negotiations.The panel has four ministers,eight MPs,six MLAs and two MLCs.
Meanwhile,the T Congress leaders said the Monday meeting Azad would be the last one and that any discussions after that can only be about the modalities on carving out separate T state.The situation in New Delhi for creation of separate T state appears to be bleak now.The high command is postponing a decision in the name of negotiations.So we will have no option but to go to the people after getting our resignations accepted, several T-Congress leaders told STOI on condition of anonymity.
After promising Telangana from every forum including election meetings,assembly and Parliament,the Presidental address,home ministers statement to the nation on December 9,the Congress high command now wants to disown the past,and start negotiations afresh.This is nothing but reneging on the Telangana state and will lead to disastrous consequences for the Congress in Telangana, the leaders warned.
Starting negotiations afresh means the end of the road for the Congress in Telangana,they said,adding that the stance of the party central leadership will give a new lease of life to parties like the TDP. The T-Congress leaders suspect that the major opposition party may spring another surprise by making their two MPs,Nama Nageshwar Rao (Khammam ) and Ramesh Rathod (Adilabad ) meet Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar to request her to accept their resignations.According to T-Congress sources,if their resignations are accepted and the two TRS MPs too follow suit,the Congress members would be in a soup.It would force us to press for the acceptance of our resignations too, they said.
The T-Congress leaders,who participated in the discussions with Azad on Thursday and Friday,asserted that the Monday meeting is going to be the final meeting as for as the T-Congress is concerned.There is nothing new to explain on T issue.Telangana and withdrawal of resignations are non-negotiable.Every member present in the last two meetings made it clear to Azad.Mondays meeting will be the final meeting.The next meeting,if any,will be only after the announcement of Telangana, one leader said.
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(SOURCE - TOI)
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