Nalgonda, March 21: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today urged Telangana protagonists not to stall development activities and instead plead ‘strongly’ their views before the Justice Srikrishna Committee appointed by the Centre to look into the gamut of the vexed issue.
As a group at the largely attended public meeting raised pro-Telangana slogans, Chief Minister told them — on his first visit to Nalgonda after assuming charge as Chief Minister — that the issue of Telangana was not in the purview of the state and state Assembly and rested solely with the Centre. The Centre had consequently appointed the Justice Srikrishna Comittee to look into the Telangana issue in all its totality rather the opinion of all the sections of people and the pro-Telangana votaries should strongly put forward their case before the Committee, the Chief Minister told the gathering after he had laid the foundation stone for a lift irrigation project and electric sub-station in the district.
Chief Minister asserted that the state government would go ahead with the irrigation projects under Jalayagnam visualised by the former Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, but was mulling to ‘give push’ to those projects which were in advance stages rather than spread the pie across all the projects — under Jalayagna thus delaying completion of any of the projects.
—Agencies