TRS To Support No Confidence Motion

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has decided to support the No Confidence Motion proposed to be introduced by the Telugu Desam Party against the Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Congress government.

The decision was taken during the TRS Legislature Party meeting held at Telangana Bhavan here on Wednesday.

Briefing the media about the decision taken during the meeting, TRS floor leader Etela Rajender said that all 13 TRS MLAs would vote in favour of the No Confidence Motion.

Etela said the TRS has been supporting the move as the state government has failed to provide relief to the drought-hit farmers in the Telangana region.

Further, the Congress-led UPA government had failed to honour its commitment to the formation of Telangana, and the state government had used the Preventive Detention Act against those who participated in the Telangana agitation.

In the meeting chaired by TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, the TRSLP decided to introduce a Telangana Resolution in the Assembly session.

Etela said that the TRS would stall the proceedings if the Telangana Resolution was not introduced.

He said that the move to introduce a Telangana Resolution would also expose the Congress and TDP MLAs from the region, if they didn't support the move.

The TRS Legislature Party also demanded that the state government declare entire Telangana region, where five to six farmers have been committing suicide every day, as drought-hit.

It also demanded the waiver of farm loans, input subsidy cost of Rs. 15,000 per acre, and supply of free seeds and fertilisers.

Reacting to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's announcement that an all-party meeting would be convened on the Telangana issue, Etela Rajender said that there was nothing new in the Home Minster's statement.

He said an all-party meeting held on December 7, 2009, clearly supported the statehood demand, and Chidambaram himself made the announcement of starting the process for the formation of Telangana on December 9.

However, the Centre went back on its promise later, he said. (INN)