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     Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 3055 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 206.123.17.17 Rating: N/A |
The all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) spearheading the agitation for a separate Telangana state got a jolt on Tuesday with two prominent members of the Congress saying they had quit the panel. The two Congress MLAs had been attending JAC meetings till Tuesday. But they walked out, charging the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) with engineering attacks on the houses and property of Congress legislators in the Telangana region on Monday and Tuesday. The premises attacked belong to legislators who had not heeded the JAC's call to all Telangana MLAs to resign from the Andhra Pradesh assembly. After two days of attacks in which the houses and offices of eight Congress legislators were targeted by pro-Telangana activists, the Congress decided enough is enough. "We warn the TRS activists not to attack the houses of Congress legislators. If they continue to do so, we are not going to keep quiet," Congress MLA from Telangana Ponnam Prabhakar M.P. said. Prabhakar also accused JAC convenor Kodandaram of working "like a postman" of TRS leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao and rejecting the views of all parties before taking decisions. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party is in no mood to ask its Telangana MLAs to resign from the House. Frustrated by the developments, the TRS charged the Congress and the TDP with "betraying" the people of Telangana. "The true colours of these parties have come out in the open now and the people will teach them a lesson," TRS leader Harish Rao said. Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP | ||
| Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 3054 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 206.123.17.17 Rating: N/A |
It is in the spirit of getting on with its work, regardless of the fraught situation in which it has to be undertaken, that the Srikrishna Committee on Saturday decided to buckle up and complete its task even before the deadline of 31 December 2010. Significantly, speaking to newspersons after emerging from the meeting, Justice Srikrishna reminded them that whichever committee he had headed so far had submitted its report well ahead of schedule. The committee will meet again on February 25 and thereafter at least twice a month. Headquartered in Delhi, it will frequently visit Andhra Pradesh. The panel is to visit Hyderabad soon and will travel anywhere in the State it felt necessary to elicit the views of all sections of society. The five-member committee headed by Justice Srikrishna held its first meeting here and chalked out certain plans. During the three-hour-long deliberations it decided to issue a public notice on Monday seeking memoranda and representations from a cross-section of the people. It would also elicit the views of political parties and organisations on the demands for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining status quo. Emerging from the meeting, Justice Srikrishna said: "We will try and see what can be done. We have chalked out certain plans and propose to have interactions with all sections of society as soon as possible. "We will ascertain their views. We will also hold a series of meetings with different strata of people in the affected areas," he added. To a query on protests in the State, Justice Srikrishna said: âWe are not worried about that. We will do our work.â He said the task would be accomplished and the report submitted well before the deadline. Justice Srikrishna sought the cooperation of all sections of society in Andhra Pradesh to ensure peace and an amicable solution to the aspirations of the people of all regions. Meanwhile, police detained a group of students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University who held a protest outside Vigyan Bhavan here, the venue of the meeting. Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP |
