Hyderabad: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday met senior Congress leaders from Telangana region, triggering off speculation that some ruling party MPs might join the Telangana party ahead of next year's general polls. The TRS president went to the residence of senior Congress leader K Keshav Rao here and held talks with him for about two hours. Congress Lok Sabha member M Jagannath was also present at the meeting.
Keshav Rao said they discussed political issues and strengthening of the separate statehood agitation. "TRS is leading the movement for separate Telangana. What I want to say is that we, the Telangana protagonists and Telangana Congress leaders, are ready for anything to achieve Telangana," Keshav Rao, a former president of Andhra Pradesh Congress, told reporters after the meeting.
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03:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Asserting that the Centre had never said that "it would "give or not give" a separate Telangana state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday said that the union government would take a decision on statehood when the 'time and occasion' come. He also said that any resolution in the state Assembly (on Telangana) could be taken up only on the directive of the Centre. ...
12:40 AM, Mar 24, 2013
The central government's decision to convene an all-party meeting on Telangana issue later in December has triggered war of words between the two major political parties in Andhra Pradesh with the Congress rejecting the TDP's demand to spell out its stand. ...
04:48 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately resolve the Telangana issue. TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu sent a letter to the Prime Minister, demanding that he immediately convene an all-party meeting on the issue. Blaming the Congress for the delay and uncertainty, Naidu said no decision was taken even on the report of the Srikrishna Committee. He alleged that the Congress, Telangana...
12:44 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader and Sircilla legislator KT Rama Rao has expressed hope that Telangana will become a reality before the 2014 general election. "I do not want to approach elections with Telangana as the agenda," he told a gathering of public prosecutors here on Sunday. He said it was unfortunate that a raw deal was being meted out to the Telangana region in all aspects. For instance, of...
10:19 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has condemned Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's claim that he met him on the Telangana statehood issue. "While making a statement on Telangana in Lok Sabha yesterday, Chidambaram noted that I met him personally (on the issue). This is totally untrue," Chandrababu said in a statement on Thursday. He alleged that the Central government that was supposed to find a permanent solution...
02:44 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government will not thrust its opinion on Telangana and the decision on the statehood issue will be taken after consensus among political parties. "The government will not impose its views on Telangana and the decision will be taken only after the eight political parties come up with a view," Chidambaram said while replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha...
12:48 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre will respond as soon as possible on the demand for separate Telangana state, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday. Addressing his monthly press conference, he appealed to MPs from Telangana including his partymen to allow Parliament to function while their demand can be discussed. "We will respond as soon as possible," he said in reply to a question about Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj...
04:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has concluded intra-party discussions on the separate Telangana issue but is yet to take a final decision, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday. "We have concluded our discussions with leaders of our party at all levels -- MPs, legislators, senior party leaders belonging to all the three regions," Azad, who is also Congress General Secretary in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, told reporters....
06:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Hyderabad: Rocked by the Telangana issue, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was on Monday adjourned for the day without transacting any business. MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Telangana Telugu Desam Forum stormed the Speaker's podium as soon as the House began after a three-day holiday and raised slogans demanding that a resolution be passed seeking creation of a separate state. Amidst the din, Speaker Nadendla Manohar adjourned...
12:26 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Hyderabad: The leaders of pro-Telangana employees of Andhra Pradesh government, who have been in the forefront of separate statehood agitation, on Sunday met Union Minister and Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad here. "We have come here to urge him to table the bill for formation of separate Telangana during the Budget session of Parliament," K Swamy Goud, a union leader, told reporters after the meeting. According to Gaud, Azad...
02:13 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Hyderabad: The winter session of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly began on a stormy note on Thursday with the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) stalling the proceedings, forcing the speaker to adjourn the house. It was trouble right from the word go as TDP members rushed to the speaker's podium seeking an assurance that he would take up the no-confidence motion moved by the party. As soon as the five-day...
10:42 AM, Dec 01, 2011
On Board PM's Special Plane: Admitting difficulties in arriving at 'quick decisions' Telangana issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said it will take 'some time' to evolve a solution that would be a 'win-win' for all concerned. "Well, there is no inaction," he said disagreeing with a journalist who said there was an impression that the government was not acting. "Efforts are being made to find a solution, which...
11:27 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress camp in Andhra Pradesh is abuzz with activity with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and state party president Botsa Satyanarayana stepping in to avert a possible crisis in the wake of threat by legislators from Telangana to quit their posts in support of a separate state. Following a directive from the Congress high command to defuse the situation, the Chief Minister swung into action and held...
01:43 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Hyderabad: Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said the vexed Telangana issue would take longer time to be resolved even as legislators from the region belonging to Congress threatened to quit their posts and those from TDP promised to follow suit seeking a separate state. Any decision on Telangana was not possible without a "national consensus" since the issue was not the problem of Andhra Pradesh alone, he said....
03:03 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Hyderabad: The Justice Srikrishna Committee report has recommended in a "secret" supplementary note steps the Centre should take to keep the Telangana statehood issue under check in Andhra Pradesh. The supplementary note remained a "secret" till yesterday before Justice L Narasimha Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court made it public through his judgement on a writ petition filed by former MP M Narayan Reddy. The secret supplementary note contained...
06:03 PM, Mar 24, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned without transacting any business for the third day on Monday as TRS and TDP members from Telangana region raised slogans demanding separate statehood. As soon as the House met for the day, agitated members belonging to these parties raised the issue vociferously and repeatedly stormed the well, ignoring pleas by the Chair to restore order. Spearheading the protest, Telangana Rashtra Samiti members rushed...
03:00 PM, Feb 21, 2011
