Hyderabad, January 02: Ahead of the January five meeting called by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on the Telangana issue, the Telugu Desam Party today asked the Centre to spell out the roadmap for bifurcation of the state.
Addressing a press conference here, TDP Politburo Member Nagam Janardhan Reddy said Mr Chidambaram’s invitation to political parties was ”confusing” as it sought to deliberate on a ”mechanism for a roadmap for discussion on Telangana”. He wanted the Centre to also involve apolitical organisations, including government employees and students who are in the vanguard of the movement, which had percolated possibly for the first time in the history to ”every village in Telangana (region)”.
The discussion on Telangana, the senior TDP leader contended, was already initiated on June 2004 in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, with the UPA Government declaring that it was for the formation of Telangana state. On the other hand, the Rosaiah Government in Andhra Pradesh, he alleged, had failed to move the appropriate resolution on the Telangana state in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly even after Mr Chidambaram’s December nine statement.
——Agencies