Hyderabad, January 29: While extending the deadline for forcing acceptance of resignation of elected representatives from Telangana region upto February seven, the all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee(JAC) has decided to intensify its stir to put pressure on the Union Government to come out with a clear-cut time schedule for formation of separate Telangana state.
”The JAC is not fully satisfied with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s announcement to appoint a committee on the statehood issue by the next week as it fell short of the JAC’s demand for announcement of timeframe for formation of Telangana. However, we decided to wait till February seven to to know about the composition of the Committee and terms of reference,” JAC Convenor M Kodanadram told UNI.
The JAC steering committee would meet later today to chalk out agitational programmes to maintain pressure on the Centre to meet the JAC’s demand for a specific time frame for creation of Telangana state, he said.
Even as the representatives of ruling Congress in the JAC expressed confidence that the Centre would be able to deliver Telangana in about six months during the stormy JAC meet last night, the opposition parties opined that it was only a ”delay tactics” and referred to various committees constituted in the past, including one headed by Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee and a Joint Legislature Committee constituted under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister K Rosaiah, then Finance Minister, by the previous Y S Rajasekhara Reddy Government.
At one stage, Congress representatives threatened to walk out of the meeting but came back after members of other parties agreed to wait till February seven to decide on the JAC’s next course of action.
——Agencies