T-TIME AGAIN -TJAC to step up heat on ministers (To Stop Netas From Carrying Out Duties )

Urging the Telangana people to boycott the Congress leaders from the region,the T Political JAC  will launch a renewed separate statehood agitation on Monday,where the focus would be on putting pressure on the T ruling party ministers to quit. According to the TJAC,pro-T activists would obstruct the T-ministers from carrying out administrative duties and public activities. Releasing an eight-point agenda,the TJAC appealed to people to boycott the Congress leaders till they quit the party. The boycott is both political and social.People will not allow the ministers move around freely.TJAC activists will stop the ministers from attending administrative duties as well as public activities such as meeting people.And this will continue till the ministers quit, said Pittala Ravinder, state co-coordinator of TJAC.There are thirteen ministers from Telangana in the Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet including deputy chief minister C Damodar Raja Narasimha and panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy.While the main agitation would be at the Assembly constituencies of the ministers,demonstrations were also planned for the ten T-district headquarters and Hyderabad. The final modalities of the agitation would be deliberated in a meeting of the steering committee of TJAC on Sunday.Representatives of the constituent member parties of TJAC including Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS),Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and New Democracy are scheduled to take part in the meeting. While T-ministers would be targeted in the first phase,MLAs and MPs would face protests later,the TJAC announced.The agitation has been planned in phases.After concentrating on ministers and compelling them to quit,we will focus on MLAs and MPs.This time,the anti-Telangana political elements will surely taste the aggressiveness of the movement, said Pittala Ravinder. (Source-toi)

'The decision to grant Telangana has already been made; it is just a matter of timing'

 

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"The decision to grant Telangana has already been made; it is just a matter of timing. There will be protests for sure, but one can be rest assured that the reality of a separate state is just a few months away."
"The Congress cannot keep this decision pending. In 2004 itself, Sonia had said that Telangana will be formed and the Congress too realises the importance of having a separate state."

"Our fight for Telangana is a genuine one and it is not political in nature. Our high command realises this, but was cornered as it did not want the government to fall before the budget as they had been threatened."
 
"There is also talk that some of our leaders from Telangana would resign and join the TRS. There is no need for all this because T will be granted after the budget. There is also no confusion regarding a merger between the TRS and the Congress. The TRS cannot risk fighting the elections alone once T is formed and they need the Congress at any cost. All this has been decided and everything will take shape only once the budget session is complete."

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'One must understand the power that K V P Ramachandra Rao'

 

Vicky Nanjappa spoke to Madhu Yashki Goud, Congress Member of Parliament from the Telangana region, on what forced his party of suddenly change its stance on granting statehood to Telangana.

Here's what Madhu Yashki Goud told rediff.com:

"One must understand the power that K V P Ramachandra Rao, a Rajya Sabha MP who was also a close confidante of the late Dr Y S Rajasekara Reddy, has. He controls 25 Congress leaders and it was he who ensured that these leaders got an appointment with top leaders barring party president Sonia Gandhi."

"It was a given that the Centre would hand over Telangana, but everything changed after these persons from the Congress met with leaders in Delhi. KVP's association with the YSR family is not a secret. He is Jagan's man in the Congress and controls these leaders who are all set to cross over into the YSR Congress party."

"Thanks to the absolute control he has over these 25 to 30 leaders from Andhra Pradesh, even the high command listens to him. Everyone in the high command -- barring Sonia Gandhi -- listens to him and he has been very successful in blocking the real picture which Gandhi never gets to know."
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'This entire drama was staged managed by KVP to ensure that Jagan gains'

  

"After the Union government made it clear that it would give a decision on Telangana in 30 days, everything was clear. Then there was a meeting of the high command with 25 leaders of the Congress, which included 13 ministers, 5 MPs and the 7 MLAs. These leaders told Vayalar Ravi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and also Sushilkumar Shinde that if the decision to hand over Telangana is made then they would pull down the government and ensure that the budget is not passed."

"The high command was obviously worried about this and realises the importance of this budget. This is the last budget before the elections and the Congress does not want any disruption on the same. Hence, the decision was taken to defer the decision."
"Let me make it clear that these leaders who met the high command are not going to stick to the Congress. They will cross over to the YSR Congress and wanted the decision deferred at any cost. They realise that there are some business interests in the Telangana region and it would suit them only if Andhra Pradesh is united. This entire drama was staged managed by KVP to ensure that Jagan gains."
"It would be right to say that the Congress has fallen prey to this game. They are well aware of it, but also want to ensure that the budget both at the Centre and also the state are passed without any hiccups. Hence they too decided to buy time."
Image: (Inset) K V P Ramachandra Rao
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More time needed for T: Cong - Meet On T By Feb 20: Vayalar

With the NCP announcing its support for Telangana,the Congress is now chanting a new mantra : We are for Telangana but need more time. Less than a week after AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad negated Union home minister Sushilkumar Shindes deadline and said a decision on the separate state demand needs more time,central leader Vayalar Ravi on Friday put up the impression that the Congress is serious on Telangana but would not commit as to when a decision would be taken.

A high level meeting on Telangana will be convened on or before February 20, Vayalar Ravi told the media.The party will be able to give more clarity on the T- issue after holding crucial meetings with chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana,he said. However, the AICC functionary was not willing to commit a time line for the meeting to end and a decision to be announced.The consultation process is being taken up at various levels.It needs more dialogue and wider discussions.Therefore,I cannot fix a time frame.Ghulam Nabi Azad,who is the Congress's in-charge of Andhra Pradesh,would be able to throw more light on it, he said. Ravi also claimed that home minister Shinde had never said that a decision on Telangana will be taken by the Centre by January 28.We never discussed the date.The Telangana issue is still under the discussion stage and I cannot tell you how long it will take, he said.

Meanwhile,Union civil aviation minister and Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh also urged the Centre to clinch the Telangana issue as early as possible.

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Pawar stirs T-pot -NCP Chief Tells Manmohan Not To Delay Telangana

New Delhi: In a surprise move on Thursday,Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar set in motion the expected political churning ahead of the 2014 elections by pitching for Telangana.The NCP is an important ally of the Congress in the UPA Govt and by endorsing Telangana,Pawar also lent his support for the creation of separate Vidarbha in his native Maharashtra,also a decade-old demand.

Telangana supporters received a pleasant surprise when soon after the Union cabinet meeting,Pawar met P M Manmohan Singh and told him that according statehood to Telangana should brook no delay. Dragging the feet on the issue would aggravate the situation in Andhra Pradesh where tensions in the two regions have been rising by the day,the NCP chief told Manmohan Singh. According to sources,Pawar referred to the assurance given by Congress to T people in 2004,the incorporation of the demand in the common minimum programme of the UPA as well as its inclusion in the first Presidential address after the Congress-led coalition assumed power at the Centre.After having gone this far,you cannot ignore the issue.Delaying the decision on Telangana will be no good for the Congress, he is said to have told the PM.

Later,addressing the media,Pawar said: The Congress too is inclined towards Telangana.The issue is that of timing.We want Telangana as early as possible.A delay will not be helpful to us, he said.The agriculture minister recalled how his party had been supportive of separate Telangana for long and that he had participated in a rally with TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao a few years back.The NCP chief said he had no knowledge as to why the decision on Telangana was being delayed.When asked if the parliament session was the reason,he said he had no information.

TRS MLA Harish Rao thanked Pawar for his initiative on T. Sharad Pawar has been consistent in his support to Telangana.We thank him on behalf of Telangana people, Harish Rao said in Hyderabad. Pawars NCP and the Congress are coalition partners in Maharashtra. Reiterating his stand on Vidarbha, Pawar said NCP had no objection if the Vidarbha region also becomes a separate state.We will not come in the way".Incidentally,the NCP had been silent on the Vidarbha demand till now and Pawars sudden endorsement of Telangana and Vidarbha is being seen as an indication of a changed political strategy of the NCP in approaching the 2014 general election.NCP leader and Union minister Praful Patel represents the Gondia Lok Sabha seat from Vidarbha.



The Congress too is inclined towards Telangana.The issue is that of timing.We want Telangana as early as possible.A delay will not be helpful to us

Sharad Pawar

 Vizag court summons KCR

The ongoing war of complaints lodged by opponents and supporters of Telangana took a new turn on Thursday with a Vizag court issuing summons to TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao and TJAC chairman M Kodandaram to present themselves before the judge in Visakhapatnam on February 15.Senior Civil Judge K Surya Rao issued the summons on the basis of a petition filed by Samaikyandhra Students JAC in which the two leaders were charged with making derogatory comments against Sonia Gandhi,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

There is no disagreement among us: T Cong MPs
New Delhi / Hyderabad: Confusion prevailed in the ranks of the Telangana Congress MPs on the resignation threat with four MPs who stayed put in Hyderabad insisting that their resignation letters are still valid even as their colleagues in Delhi maintained that there were no differences between them. The MPs undertook a damage control exercise on Thursday after divisions in the T-Congress MPs ranks came to the fore on Wednesday. Three of them,Madhu Yaskhi,S Rajaiah and Ponnam Prabhakar,after meeting AICC spokesperson P C Chacko in Delhi,said that they have decided to keep their resignations on hold following the assurance on the separate state demand given by him.Four MPs who stayed back in HyderabadGutha Sukhender Reddy,Manda Jagannatham,Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy and G Vivek contradicted their colleagues and said their resignation threats still hold good.

On Thursday,the MPs said that there were no differences between them.Madhu Yaskhi met senior party leader Vayalar Ravi in Delhi and is said to have conveyed the anxieties of the Congress MPs who were planning to resign from the party and the Lok Sabha.In Hyderabad,MPs Vivek,Sukhender Reddy,Jagannatham,Rajaiah Prabhakar and Rajagopal Reddy informed the media that they would not go back on their resignations.If the Congress high command ignores the Telangana demand,we will send our resignations directly to Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar, Gutha said.

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Patience required over Telangana issue: Manish Tiwary

Information and Broadcasting Minister, Manish Tiwari said patience is required over the Telangana issue as Nationalist Congress Party backs separate statehood. Making a strong pitch for separate Telangana, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar today told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that a delay in the matter would not be helpful. The NCP chief on Thursday said he raised this issue with Prime Minister, becoming the first UPA-constituent to openly come out in support of an early decision on Telangana, and was expecting a meeting of the UPA to be held soon. Talking to reporters, Pawar insisted that Congress was also "generally pro-Telangana".(ST-31/01) (Source-DD News)