London: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has supported the demand for a separate Telangana state and assured the protagonists of the cause that his party will fulfill the long-standing aspirations of the people of the region if it returns to power. The BJP has always been in favour of smaller states and was the first national political party which adopted a resolution for a separate Telangana state if...
10:30 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: Congress top brass is virtually burning the mid-night oil to find a solution to the Telangana statehood demand amid threats by party MPs, MLAs and ministers from the region to quit en masse if a decision on the issue is not taken soon. Party President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today took stock of the situation in Andhra Pradesh in a two-hour long meeting of Congress...
02:52 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Hyderabad: The war of words between TRS and TDP intensified on Thursday with the former attacking the Chandrababu Naidu-led party over the Telangana issue. Taking exception to the sharp criticism by TDP leaders at a pro-Telangana meeting at Karimnagar on Wednesday, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao's son and MLA KT Rama Rao on Thursday alleged that the TDP lacked sincerity towards the cause of separate statehood. "Suspended TDP leader Nagam...
05:12 PM, May 26, 2011
The 'rail blockade' demanding a separate state is expected to continue for 12 hours. ...
12:36 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New Delhi: The issue of formation of a separate Telangana state is becoming ticklish for Congress with each passing day as party leaders from the sensitive region in Andhra Pradesh mount pressure on it to find an early settlement. With the budget session of Parliament on, partymen from Telangana region appear to have made a common cause in Lok Sabha with members of TRS and TDP from the region. The...
01:01 PM, Feb 27, 2011
Hyderabad: Around 2,000 pro-Telangana agitators were on Tuesday taken into custody after they indulged in violent protests on the first day of the two-day bandh called in the region on the statehood issue, police said. The shutdown has been called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), which comprises political parties and people's organisations, to demand introduction of Telangana Bill in the ongoing budget session of Parliament. However, the situation...
11:22 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the high command over the Telangana issue, Congress MPs from the region will meet the party's core committee members in New Delhi on Sunday. "The MPs are meeting on Sunday in Delhi. We will think of our strategy. We might meet the core committee members and we will give suggestions on what needs to be done. The situation is very critical given the ongoing...
09:20 PM, Feb 20, 2011
New Delhi: The issue of a separate Telangana could generate heat in the Budget session of Parliament beginning on Monday as the government has no plans to table a bill to carve out a new state. "A bill on Telangana is not included in the list of bills to be introduced in the budget session," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told reporters. He, however, hastened to add that the...
07:02 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana issue is likely to dominate proceedings of the budget session of Andhra Pradesh Legislature which begins on Thursday. Other issues likely to come up during the session, which is expected to run till March 31, are non-reimbursement of tuition fee for students pursuing professional courses, farmers' problems, the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal award and corruption in government projects. Governor E S L Narasimhan will deliver the customary...
10:04 PM, Feb 16, 2011
N ow that the Srikrishna Committee on Telangana has completed its job, it is for the Union government and the political process to take a call on the situation in Andhra Pradesh. Although the committee talked about six options, four of them were set up by it as dummies to be shot down. The five-member body clearly put its weight behind the option of keeping the state united. However, it...
03:30 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: A fresh appeal by home minister P Chidambaram notwithstanding, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti will sit out the meeting called to discuss the justice Srikrishna report. K Chandrashekhar Rao, TRS leader said, "The government of India itself wants to complicate the issue, we can't help it. This is quite unethical". The Telegu Desam Party and the BJP too have announced a boycott of the meeting. The report on the...
11:43 PM, Jan 05, 2011
The BJP retained one seat with its candidate Lakshminarayana defeating state Congress chief D Srinivas in Nizamabad Urban segment. ...
06:16 PM, Jul 30, 2010
GJM activists will take out massive rallies in the hills from Thursday ...
04:51 PM, Dec 10, 2009
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