New Delhi, Dec 16: Grappling with the Andhra Pradesh crisis, the Congress was embarrassed inside and outside Parliament today when UPA partners questioned the government’s “hasty” decision on a separate Telangana and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MP and son of the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, joined a TDP demonstration in Lok Sabha, even borrowing a placard from them which read “We want united AP.”
New Delhi, Decamber 15: Breaking his silence on the Telangana issue, Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday said he stands for a united Andhra Pradesh and alleged that TDP and its chief N Chandrababu Naidu were responsible for the current situation in the state.
Jaganmohan, the son of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, also clarified that he was forced to exhibit his support for a united state in Lok Sabha today as he did not want “TDP alone to take the credit for supporting a unified Andhra.”
Hyderabad, December 15: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet today met for the first time since the announcement of a separate Telangana state was made and the resignation threat by ministers on the issue of division of the state has receded for now.
“There is no rebellion in the Cabinet. All the 33 ministers attended the official meeting of the Cabinet here today,” Information Minister J Geeta Reddy told reporters at the end of the meeting in the Secretariat.
New Delhi/Hyderabad, December 15: The war within the Congress party over the Telangana issue intensified Tuesday as unrest raged in Andhra Pradesh against the proposed division of the state. Under attack from its allies, the ruling party appealed for peace.
At a 90-minute meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), the Congress came in for criticism from some of its allies for taking the decision to split Andhra Pradesh without adequate consultation within the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), informed sources said.
Vijayawada, December 15: Congress MP L Rajagopal, who had threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike to oppose division of Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday began his fast here.
“I wanted to undertake the fast in Hyderabad yesterday but I was not allowed to do so, I am continuing my fast here,” Rajagopal told reporters here.
Asserting that the majority of the people do not want division of Andhra Pradesh, he demanded the Centre make a statement that the state would not be bifurcated.
Vijaywada, Dec 15: Congress MP L Rajagopal, who had threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike to oppose division of Andhra Pradesh, began his fast here on Tuesday.
“I wanted to undertake the fast in Hyderabad yesterday but I was not allowed to do so, I am continuing my fast here,” Mr. Rajagopal told reporters here.
Asserting that the majority of the people do not want division of Andhra Pradesh, he demanded the Centre make a statement that the State would not be bifurcated.
Vijayawada, December 15: Congress MP L Rajagopal, who had threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike to oppose division of Andhra Pradesh, today began his fast here.
“I wanted to undertake the fast in Hyderabad yesterday but I was not allowed to do so, I am continuing my fast here,” Rajagopal told reporters here.
Asserting that the majority of the people do not want division of Andhra Pradesh, he demanded the Centre make a statement that the state would not be bifurcated.
New Delhi, December 15: Formation of a separate Telangana could take a while with Congress today making it clear that any forward movement on it was possible only after the state assembly passes a resolution for it.
At the same time, the AICC also made it clear that it was not averse to the formation of a second State Reorganization Commission if there was a consensus on the issue.
“The Central government will take the next step only after the state assembly passes the resolution for Telangana and then Congress will support it,” Party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad told reporters here.
New Delhi, December 15: The government has no intention of either imposing President’s Rule in Andhra Pradesh or setting up a second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC). The decision follows a sudden spurt in demands for new states and is aimed at putting an end to this trend.
Hyderabad, December 14: Widespread protests and arson continued on the fourth day today across Andhra and Rayalaseema regions opposing bifurcation of the State. The TDP, the Congress and the PRP supported the agitators.
TDP MLAs even launched relay fast in Vijayawada and a fasting freedom fighter breathed his last in Prakasam district. A fasting student of Andhra University suffered heart stroke in Visakhapatnam. Protesters burned railway
stations and other offices in Anantapur district and several towns in Rayalaseema observed bandh today for the sake of `Samaikya Andhra’.
Tirupati, December 14: In a shocking incident, some miscreants set ablaze a RTC bus in Alipiri bus station, even as the pilgirms were alighting at the bus stop tonight.
An Alipiri Bus depot bus returned from Tirumala with passengers at 10:30 p.m.
and even as the passengers were alighting from the vehicle, some unidentified miscreants, who came on a two wheeler, threw bottles of petrol into the bus from the rear window and threw a lighted match. The driver and some passengers who saw the rear side of the bus on fire, immediately
Sangareddy, December 14: Patancheru MLA and District Congress Committee president T Nandeeswar Goud alleged that land mafia in Hyderabad was provocating students in Andhra and Rayalaseema regions and instigating them to take to agitations.
Speaking to mediapersons here today, he alleged that leaders like Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajgopal were resorting to cheap politics fearing that the land rates would go down once separate Telangana State was carved.
Hyderabad, December 14: In the see-saw game for and against Telangana, ministers from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions appear to have reconciled themselves to the inevitability of the creation of a separate State. Their upbeat counterparts from Telangana have sent a letter to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi thanking her.
Hyderabad, December 14: An engineering college student died while three others suffered severe injuries after they rammed their car into a roadside tree in Madhapur in the wee hours of
Sunday. A group of five friends were returning from a late-night birthday bash when the accident took place. The youngsters are engineering students of various colleges located on the city outskirts and hail from different localities in the city, police said. The five are V Rohit Reddy, Vicky, Arjun Goud, Shamkukh Goud and Nitin Reddy. On Saturday night, they set out for
New Delhi, December 14: Andhra Pradesh ministers and MPs from Telangana region today thanked Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her “historic decision” initiating the process for the formation of a separate Telangana state.
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New Delhi, December 14: The government sought to cool tempers in Andhra Pradesh over the Telangana issue, saying there can be no forward movement on the statehood issue until the state assembly passes a resolution.
The developments in Andhra Pradesh were discussed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and state Chief Minister K. Rosaiah was advised about steps to defuse the situation.
Vijayawada, December 14: Normal life was paralysed in the city today by massive protests against the arrest of Lok Sabha member L Rajagopal in Hyderabad ahead of his proposed hunger strike to oppose the move to create a separate Telangana state.
Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) suspended its services while shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded in Vijayawada and elsewhere in Krishna district due to suspension of bus services.
Hyderabad, December 14: Protests continued in Rayalaseema and coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth day on Monday against bifurcation of the state.
Tension prevailed in Vijayawada and elsewhere in Krishna district after the arrest of Lok Sabha member L Rajagopal in Hyderabad. His followers took out rallies and staged sit-in across the city.
Some of them attempted suicide by pouring kerosene at the Congress’s office in the city but police intervened and took three of them into custody.
Hyderabad, December 14: The political crisis in Andhra Pradesh triggered by the Telangana issue showed no signs of easing on Sunday with four TDP leaders launching an indefinite fast opposing bifurcation of the state, even as ministers, who threatened to quit, maintained silence on their move.
Telugu Desam MLAs Devineni Umamaheswara Rao (Mylavaram) and Chinnam Ramakotaiah (Nuzividu), along with former Mayor of Vijayawada city Panchumarthi Anuradha and party leader B Umamaheswara Rao sat on the indefinite hunger strike in Vijayawada, the epicentre of the anti-Telangana protests.
Hyderabad, December 14: AP government that threatened to snowball into a constitutional crisis as well showed some signs of being defused with the ministers hailing from both the Telangana and also Andhra and Rayalaseema regions asserting tonight there was no threat to the Cabinet.
While the Telangana ministers asserted that there was no question of their quitting the Cabinet, the Andhra and Rayalaseema ministers who yesterday threatened to resign in protest against the proposed bifurcation of the state have almost decided to give up their plan.
Hyderabad, Deceber 13: With the crisis in AP showing no signs of ebbing, the Congress top brass is gearing up itself to weather the storm even as the back channels are trying to work out a rapprochement between the two warring sides, at least within the Congress fold.
In an attempt to bring the temperature down, Congress Rajya Sabha MP from the State K Keshav Rao – one of the original Telangana agitators – was fielded to offer an olive branch to the other side. He appealed to the MPs/MLAs of Andhra-Rayalaseema region to talk to the Congress high command instead of going on fast.
Hyderabad, December 13: Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh will be helpful in attaining social justice in all the three regions of the State, the National Lawyers’ Forum For Social Justice
(NLFFSJ) has said. Addressing a press conference here today, NLFFSJ
Hyderabad, December 13: An unprecedented political crisis has gripped Andhra Pradesh and the Rosaiah Government is on the brink of collapse with as many as 20 ministers conveying their decision to quit if the UPA Government did not put on hold the decision to create a separate Telangana State.
Anantapur, December 13: Stating that Anantapur district was the worst-affected in today’s violence opposing separate Telangana, the State police warned of punitive action against those who indulge in violence.
Inspector-General of Police, Vigilance and Enforcement, A R
Anuradha told reporters that Rs 30 lakh worth cable of BSNL was set
ablaze by protestors in Ananatapur today as part of the bandh protesting the Centre’s announcement to bifurcate the state. Similarly, a vehicle belonging to Roads and Buildings department was also set ablaze.
Hyderabad, December 13: Hitting back at their Andhra and Rayalaseema counterparts joining up to press for a unified State, Telugu Desam legislators from Telangana have declared that they would resign if the party were to retract its pro-Telangana stand.
Naidu should not back out of his T commitment, they said.
Senior leader K Srihari told reporters in Warangal that the TDP should stick to
its pro-T stand else all the leaders from the region would quit. He also appealed