Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Convenor Kodandaram on Friday said that the fate of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government now hinged on the Congress MPs from Telangana who could use the leverage to make the centre buckle down and agree to carving out a separate Telangana state.
Telangana MPs must now corner the centre and resign, so that the UPA government was reduced to a minority, Prof. Kodandaram said, especially after Seemandhra MPs had made their stand clear to Congress Core Committee member Pranab Mukherjee that they were opposed to the bifurcation of the state.
The separate statehood protagonist said that the Congress MPs from Telangana now could push the centre in a corner, and get it to agree to the carving of a separate state by threatening to resign.
Prof. Kodandaram was talking to media persons after starting a relay hunger fast at Kukatpally village in the city. The relay hunger fasts began across the region after the views of the Seemandhra MPs became clear at their meeting with Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Thursday evening.
The Telangana leader said that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi would join those leaders who voluntarily came forward for the cause of Telangana state. He also clarified that the TRS had no objection to working with like-minded parties for the separate state formation.
Prof. Kodandaram also asked the Telugu Desam Party to make its stand clear on the Telangana issue before the second all-party conclave, which was tentatively scheduled to be to be held in New Delhi on January 24th.
He said that the Telangana leaders across the region would observe relay hunger fasts to mount pressure on the centre to introduce a separate Telangana bill in the budget session of Parliament.
Courtesy: INN
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