Congress' Telangana leaders, who were left playing minor parts in the K Chandrasekhar Rao dominated-drama unleashed by the Centre's December 9 statehood decision, are belatedly attempting to rewrite the script in the second part of the Telangana show.
With the Centre having put the Telangana decision in the deep freezer by talking of "wide-ranging consultations" before proceeding further, Telangana Congress leaders are now taking a shot at claiming credit by insisting on a time-frame for the creation of the new state.
After a spate of 'resignations' handed over to Congress president Sonia Gandhi by Telangana MPs, MLAs and ministers, Congress' leaders from the region also want to take the lead in organising the protests of the joint action committee (JAC) formed by all Telangana parties.
The 13 Congress ministers from Telangana in the K Rosaiah cabinet, who had put in their papers on Friday in protest against the UPA government's December 23 announcement, were also in the Capital to press their case on Sunday.
They met Union urban development minister Jaipal Reddy, who hails from the region, and have sought meetings with Ms Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.
The leaders are in the Capital with the aim of conveying to members of the Congress core group that the December 23 decision of the government has generated "confusion" among the people of Telangana region and hence the Centre must clarify the time-frame for the implementation of its promise to create Telangana.
"We are here to ask the Centre and the Congress party to come out with a time-bound programme for the creation of a Telangana state," Andhra Pradesh information and tourism minister Geeta Reddy said. However, of the 13 ministers who had sent in a common resignation to the Congress president only nine ministers are part of the delegation that is in the Capital.
The ministers' appeal to the Congress leadership came even as the party's Telangana leadership was rethinking its participation in JAC formed for the Telangana cause. The JAC, which includes TRS, Congress, TDP and PRP, is now riven by fault lines as TDP has already refused to be a part of it.
Culturally, emotionally and ethically HYD doesn't fit into telangana. I hear people talking about affluent hyderabad in 50's.
ReplyDeleteI feel all this is trash and personal propaganda. The fact is that due to the constant improvements from 70's slowly and eventually Hyderabad has evolved to where it is now.
It has benefited from outsiders from all over India, other wise there wouldn't have been so much revenue and hence the jobs and income.
If telangana is given HYD cannot be internal part as the hyderabadi's are totally different to other parts of telangana.
It could be capital for telangana for all administrative purposes but it would be difficult for any one established in HYD to hail in Telangana.