Hyderabad, August 10: Chief Minister K Rosaiah has clarified that the words ‘State partition is treason against nation’ were not mentioned anywhere in the report submitted by the ministers from Andhra and Rayalaseema to the Srikrishna Committee.
“Let’s not make an issue ouf of nothing,” Rosaiah, who is in Anantapur, appealed.
With Telangana ministers upping the ante that the Seemandhra ministers should apologise for their views that seeking separate statehood for Telangana is an act of sedition, Rosaiah will have yet another controversy in his lap on his arrival from Anantapur tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, some wise counsels have reportedly suggested to the chief minister that he persuade his Andhra ministers to at least issue a statement that the paras in the memorandum that they had submitted to the Srikrishna panel should be considered as withdrawn to placate the TRS and the Telangana ministers in the cabinet.
Meanwhile, protests erupted in several places in Telangana against the submissions made by the Andhra and Rayalaseema ministers.
TRS activists staged dharnas and rasta rokos disrupting traffic on roads. They also burnt the Seemandhra ministers in effigies.
TRS legislator Harish Rao led the protest in Siddipet while former MLC R Satyanarayana spearheaded it in Sangareddy.
The duo demanded an unconditional apology from the ministers and threatened that the leaders would not be allowed to move around in Telangana. “Posters branding them as traitors of Telangana will be stuck throughout the region,” they said.
The party activists blocked traffic by squatting on NH-9 near Malkapur village.
Protests were also held at Dharmaram in Nirdoti mandal, Duddeda in Kondapaka mandal, Papannapet and Tekmal, Medak, Sadasivapet, Gajwel, Ramayampet and Tupran. Police took the protestors into custody and later released them on personal sureties.
WARANGAL: In a protest at Pedda Pendyala, Warangal West MLA Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar demanded that all the Seemandhra ministers should be removed for making ‘unwarranted and biased’ remarks.
Demanding a separate state was not unconstitutional. “We are not seeking separation from the country but only from Seemandhra and it doesn’t amount to violation of national sovereignty,” he said.
Rasta rokos were staged in Hanamkonda, Kazipet, Warangal town, Mulug, Parakal, Jangaon, Stationghanpur, Thorrur, Mahabubabad, Bhupalpalli and Narsampet in Warangal district.
TRS functionaries spearheaded by Nallala Odelu stalled trains at Chennur railway station while TRS MLA Aravind Reddy carried on the protests in Mancherial.
NALGONDA: TRS functionaries under the leadership of party leader Banda Narender paralysed traffic at NG College centre in Nalgonda town. Traffic was also stalled on Warangal-Hyderabad highway in Bhongir.
–Agencies