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     Gusagusa Side Hero Username: Gusagusa Post Number: 3644 Registered: 04-2012 Posted From: 37.228.107.126 Rating: N/A |
GoM on Telangana starts; BJP, MIM, CPI back new state Arunima CNN-IBN | 12-Nov-2013 13:27 PM New Delhi: The Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has started the consultation process on Telangana. The GoM has already met three political parties BJP, MIM and CPI from Andhra Pradesh. The MIM led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi urged the Centre to include two districts from Rayalaseema Kurnool and Ananthapur in Telangana. These two districts have a substantial Muslim population and closer to Hyderabad. The Andhra Pradesh BJP president and MLA G Kishen Reddy said, "We will support the Telangana Bill, but the interests of the Seemandhra region must also be kept in mind." The CPI which is also supporting the creation of Telangana asked the Centre to follow the due procedure and address the lapses in the bill. All three parties also urged the Centre not to make Hyderabad a Union Territory. The two day meeting of the GoM will also consult other political parties from Andhra Prdesh. The N Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP has boycotted the meeting while YSR Congress Party of Jagan Mohan Reddy has sent a delegation to oppose the creation of Telangana. TRS chief K Chandrashekhara Rao is also in New Delhi to speak in favour of Telangana. Home Minister Shinde has already made a statement that the process of creating Telangana will be over before the next Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh. | ||
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New Delhi: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has decided to boycott the meeting called by the Group of Ministers on Telangana with political leaders from Andhra Pradesh seeking to elicit their views on the process of bifurcation of the southern state. "TDP is not attending the meeting as the Centre failed to take all stakeholders into confidence while proceeding with the bifurcation move," party leader and Lok Sabha MP Modugula Venugopala Reddy said. "It (the Centre) is not considering the views of the state Assembly on the bifurcation issue," he said, adding that justice should be ensured for both the Seemandhra and Telangana regions. TDP's rival, the YSR Congress Party headed by Jagan Mohan Reddy, has, however, decided to send its delegation to the meeting which would register its protest against the proposed bifurcation. Interestingly, YSR Congress has included a leader from the Telangana region in the delegation who would be speaking for the united Andhra cause. Nellore MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy said YSR Congress would be represented at the meeting by senior leaders MV Mysoora Reddy and Gattu Ramachandra Rao. "Rao, who hails from Khamam in Telangana, is for a united Andhara Pradesh. They will be meeting the GoM on November 13 to reiterate our demand that Andhra Pradesh should not be bifurcated," Rajamohan Reddy said. The GoM, set up to look into the bifurcation, will separately meet with representatives of eight political parties from Andhra Pradesh on November 12 and 13. Members of Congress, BJP, TDP, CPI, CPI(M), Telangana Rashtra Samithi, YSR Congress and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen have been called to meet the GoM and share their views on the bifurcation and the allocation of assets, river waters, etc. between the new Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh. Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde chairs the GoM. |
