Hyderabad, January 07: Providing adequate political positions like chief minister and deputy chief minister to people hailing from Telangana is among the confidence building measures suggested by the Srikrishna panel if the region remains part of Andhra Pradesh.
The five-member panel, which went into the demands for a separate Telangana as well as keeping Andhra Pradesh united, noted in its 461-page report that the momentum for a separate state”picked up”from the time the decisions incorporated in the gentlemen’s agreement of 1956 signed between Telangana and Andhra leaders were not implemented.
It hoped that the proposed Telangana Regional Council with statutory powers would take care of the grievances of the people of the region, who have been demanding that ten districts of Andhra Pradesh be taken to carve out a new state.
–PTI