Hyderabad: The Telangana issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh state assembly for the second consecutive day on Tuesday with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) stalling the proceedings, demanding a resolution for carving out a separate state. Speaker N. Manohar adjourned the house for half-an-hour amid noisy scenes and heated arguments among members. He later held a meeting with floor leaders of all parties but it failed to end the deadlock as TRS,...
05:40 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Hyderabad: With the Telangana March still 12 days away, the separate state issue is back on the boil. Monday was Telangana Liberation Day, and separatist groups worked up quite some steam. The day began with a familiar standoff, followed by the usual pyrotechnics between the police and students of Osmania University when the latter sought to take a procession out of campus. In the Assembly, TRS MLAs kicked up a...
12:21 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: A merger with the Congress may be on the cards, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party sources said on Tuesday. They added that the merger was a pre-condition for the granting of their separate statehood demand. Sources in the Centre told mediapersons that the government reportedly wants the TRS to join it before it considers taking up the matter. TRS sources said that serious discussions were going on over...
09:10 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Hyderabad: The monsoon session of the Andhra Pradesh assembly began on a stormy note on Monday as legislators from various parties noisily demanded a resolution on the issue of statehood for Telangana, leading to the house being adjourned for the day. The house was first adjourned repeatedly and then till Tuesday as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) demanded...
12:44 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi/Hyderabad: In the backdrop of an international bio diversity summit taking place in Hyderabad on October 1, the Telangana Joint Action Committee has called for a huge protest march, threatening to disrupt the summit. The congress is now reaching to Actor turned politician and Rajya Sabha MP Chiranjeevi in order to diffuse the situation. Chiranjeevi, who merged his party with the Congress is now likely to get a cabinet...
06:54 AM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Giving a Red twist to the separate Telangana state controversy, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said fear of Naxal dominance in the proposed Telangana is an issue in deciding the separate statehood. Presenting his first report card as Home Minister, Shinde said it was not a simple issue and an early decision is not possible at this stage. There are different opinions on it and we...
12:39 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana auto drivers in the twin cities have called for a 24-hour bandh from Monday midnight to protest against the governments decision of allowing 20,000 new autos in the city. Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, the Telangana Auto Drivers Joint Action Committee convener Mohd Amanullah Khan demanded the withdrawal of the GO permitting new autos. He said that in 2002, the government had restricted new autos citing limited...
03:37 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Political parties in the state are waiting with interest to know what the two leaders, who have different political hues but are close friends, will do to clear the clouds of political uncertainty in the state. The buddies are AICC general secretary and Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. The TRS chief is building pressure on the Centre by camping in...
01:19 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Taking a dig at UPA chairperson and AICC president Sonia Gandhi, BJP senior leader LK Advani on Wednesday said that Sonia had made an empty promise for people of Telangana on granting statehood to their region. Sonia had promised a separate state for Telangana people during 2004 polls. Later, she forgot about her promise. Though Telangana people are agitating in a big way for the implementation of that promise,...
01:00 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The demand for separate statehood to Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh is picking up momentum with the BJP's fast in the national capital on Wednesday and a committee setting a Sep 29 deadline for the UPA government to initiate the process for the same. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC), which comprises Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP and other pro-Telangana groups, set Sep 29 as the deadline for...
05:22 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao on Wednesday exuded confidence that the Telangana issue would be solved this month. "The Telangana issue will definitely be solved this month. There is no doubt about it," he remarked, before leaving for New Delhi along with other leaders amid intensified efforts in the national capital to seek immediate steps for the formation of a separate Telangana state. KCR, as the...
05:05 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday promised to form a separate state of Telangana within three months if it formed a central government. BJP's Sushma Swaraj gave this assurance to a group of party activists from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh who were on a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar here. Sushma Swaraj, who went to the protest venue after parliament was adjourned till 12 noon,...
01:42 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Ministers hailing from Telangana have decided to undertake a visit to Delhi along with all the ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs from the region soon after the return of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from abroad in order to exert pressure on the high command for a speedy decision on state's bifurcation. K Jana Reddy, J Geeta Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and B Saraiah, who met at the residence of Jana...
01:03 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Hyderabad: The TRS leadership is confident that the Centre will make an announcement on Telangana in the next 15 days. Party chief K Chandrasekhara Rao's supporters claim that the Congress leadership has dropped subtle hints to him to this effect. But the TDP is very sceptical about the Congress making any statement on state's bifurcation. It is under the impression that the Congress will raise the curtain on another round...
10:43 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, BJP would hold a three-day agitation in Delhi from Monday in support of separate Telangana state. State BJP leaders and activists would stage a hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. The aim was to put pressure on the UPA government at the Centre which failed to form the separate state as per its promise, state BJP president G Kishan...
02:58 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, the BJP would hold a three-day agitation in Delhi from Monday in support of separate Telangana state. State BJP leaders and activists would stage a hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. The aim was to put pressure on the UPA government at the Centre, which failed to form the separate state as per its promise, state BJP president G...
09:43 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Hyderabad: A Rayalaseema people's conclave, organised by the Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samiti here on Sunday, demanded trifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into three states - Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema - in case the central government decided to carve out Telangana state. The day-long meeting, attended by Rayalaseema settlers in Hyderabad, vowed to achieve Rayalaseema state and formed a Rayalaseema joint action committee (RJAC), on the lines of the Telangana JAC, to spearhead...
01:07 PM, Aug 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
Kondruprolu (Andhra Pradesh): The union government must take a call soon on the issue of statehood for the Telangana region, says Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy as concerns mount in the Congress about the future of the party in the volatile region. "I am requesting them (central government) that it (Telangana issue) should be decided soon. The central government has to decide on it and we will...
10:32 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Hyderabad: As part of the BJP's efforts to consolidate its position in Telangana, the party state unit president G Kishen Reddy plans to hold a satyagraha at Jantar Mantar in Delhi from September 3 demanding that the Centre carve out a separate state soon. Simultaneous protest programmes will be organised by the party functionaries across Telangana. Reddy said on Saturday that the real intentions of the Congress on the Telangana...
10:33 AM, Aug 20, 2012
