T bill may be tabled in LS on Dec 10 -Debate On Bill May Be Of Short Duration

The A P Reorganization Bill 2013 is all set to come up before the Lok Sabha in the second week of Dec 13. Even though the House is being summoned to sit on Dec 5, the first day normally would be adjourned after obituary references. The next day, Dec 6 being Babri Masjid anniversary, important business is unlikely to be taken up in the House. Since there would be no sitting on Saturday and Sunday,serious business is expected to commence only from Dec 9. However, since it would be the first day of business, the opposition parties including the BJP are likely to raise issues like the coal gate scam to score a point over the UPA government and force the adjournment of the House. According to sources ,the Telangana bill is likely to be tabled in the Lok Sabha any day between December 10 and 13.

The Govt sources said the debate on the T bill will be a short one.In the case of the UP Reorganization Bill 2000, the time allotted was just four hours. This time also, the ruling party would not allow the debate to go out of hand. At best, three to fours hours will be allotted for the debate, the sources said. According to the sources,none of the Seemandhra leaders would be given a chance to speak on the bill. The principal speaker from the ruling benches will be home minister Sushilkumar Shinde who will pilot the bill, they said.Except the BJP ,none of the political parties would get more than five minutes to speak as the Congress wants to finish the debate as early as possible, the sources said and added that the plan of the UAP government is to take steps to ensure that the two states come into existence on New Year Day (January 1),2014.

In the meantime,the Group of Ministers which met in Delhi on Thursday could not complete the process as expected due to the absence of two important members,health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and finance minister P Chidambaram.The next meeting is expected to be held on November 27.Union Home ministry sources said the finishing touches to the draft bill will be given in the next meeting.Speaking to the media after the meeting,Shinde said that they would complete the process at the earliest.

T poses new challenges: IB chief 

As the Union government prepares a draft bill on bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh,countrys top most intelligence official on Thursday said creation of Telangana has thrown up new challenges for security agencies in view of counter agitations on the demand.Addressing annual conference of directors general and inspectors general of police from across the country,director of Intelligence Bureau Asif Ibrahim said the demand of separate Telangana state has triggered counter agitations.The situation has thrown up new challenges for security agencies and intelligence agencies both at state as well as national level, he said at the conference which was inaugurated by home minister Sushilkumar Shinde.PTI

KCR plans Delhi trip to pre-empt CMs moves - TRS Chief To Meet BJP Leaders During His Trip 

Worried over the possibility of BJP veering away from its pro-Telangana stand ahead of the likely introduction of the bill in Parliament next month,Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to visit Delhi towards the month-end in a bid to drum up support for the statehood demand. TRS leaders said KCRs Delhi visit would also be aimed at pre-empting the possible attempts of the Seemandhra leaders to sabotage the state assembly session expected to take place after the President sends the draft bill on Telangana to the House.We are expecting the draft bill to come to the state assembly in the first week of December.It is clear that the Seemandhra lobby led by chief minister Kiran Reddy is trying every trick in the book to stall the session.Therefore,our party president will go to Delhi to thwart the attempts of the anti-Telangana forces, TRS Sircilla MLA K Taraka Rama Rao told TOI.

KTR said his party has taken note of the fissures appearing in the BJP over Telangana and consequent to that,KCR would meet the BJP national leaders including its national president Rajnath Singh in Delhi.We are sure that the BJP would stick to its words on Telangana and supports the bill in Parliament.But,latest reports on the possibility of the party backtracking is worrisome,and the TRS chief will meet the senior leaders of the BJP to get reassurance from them, he said. Apart from BJP leaders,KCR is likely to meet Sharad Pawar,Sharad Yadav,and those from RJD.

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(Source-toi)