TTDPF To Press Centre On T Bill

Members of the Telangana Telugu Desam Party Forum (TTDPF) will proceed to New Delhi on March 20th in a bid to press the Centre to introduce a separate Telangana state bill in Parliament.

Speaking to mediapersons at the Assembly media-point, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA Venugopala Chary on Tuesday stated that the forum has already sought the appointments of President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.

Venugopala Chary said that the TTDPF was forced to push for the introduction of the bill since the Union Home Minister has been delaying in convening the 2nd all party conclave.

The TDP MLA alleged that this was part of the Congress High Command's delaying tactics, and accused it of 'playing games' with the Telangana issue.

He also condemned Nizamabad MP Madhu Yashki Goud's request to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to initiate proceedings to merge the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) into the Congress party.

The TDP MLA stated that the Congress was trying to suppress the Telangana agitation by enticing the pro-Telangana parties to merge into it.

TTDPF convenor Nagam Janardhan Reddy said that, "there are no differences among the MLAs from Telangana, and all of us are making collective efforts towards the formation of Telangana state."

Another party MLA from Telangana, Motkupalli Narasimhulu, stated that the agitation will be intensified across all the Telangana districts from April 1st.

He said that the TDP will create awareness on how Congress, especially the Union Home Minister has cheated people, and is resorting to delaying tactics.

Narasimhulu also accused the Centre of appointing the Justice Srikrishna Committee as part of its (Centre's) strategy to delay taking a decision to water down the separate statehood agitation.

He demanded that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram honour the statement that he had made on December 9th, 2009 on the Telangana issue.

If the Congress fails to honour the historic statement, it will bite dust in the ensuing elections, Narasimhulu warned.

Earlier, the forum MLAs convened a meeting at the Telugu Desam Legislature party office to chalk out their future course of plan on Telangana.

Courtesy: INN