Hyderabad, January 01: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has urged coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema leaders not to create fresh obstructions to formation of a Telangana State.
Talking with reporters here today, he threatened to intensify the agitation across the region if coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema leaders did not change their attitude and said they would be responsible for any untoward incidents.
He described Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s statement on Telangana as a New Year gift for the people of Telangana and hoped that Telangana people would live in their own State in 2010. He said the Central Government had already started the process of forming Telangana State and made a categorical statement.
“A majority of political parties invited to the New Delhi meeting are supportive of statehood to Telangana,” he said and expressed confidence that the MIM would also support Telangana without creating any hurdles.
He advised coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema leaders not to make fresh demands to scuttle formation of Telangana State which was in any way inevitable as per the Union Home Minister’s statement.
“It is not good for them to create obstructions and leaders and people of both the regions should agree to separation which is good for both the regions of the State.” A TRS delegation would attend the January 5 all-party meeting to explain the party’s argument on separate Telangana, Rao said.
–Agencies