New delhi,February 02 :The Home Minister said the government was on the job of drafting the Terms and Reference of the Committee and would announce it. “Terms and reference can’t be kept in secret. When we will draft it, we will announce and circulate it”, he said.
Last week, Chidambaram had said the Committee to examine the demand for separate Telangana will be announced this week.
No major incidents of violence are taking place now, barring some local bandhs and agitation by students. I once again appeal to students not to take extreme steps like ending their lives, these are unnecessary and unwarranted. These sadden me deeply,” he told a news conference here.
Mr. Chidambaram said the Centre would set up a mechanism, as agreed upon at the January 5 meeting of eight major political parties, to take into account every shade of opinion. “There will not be any delay. Last week I said the committee would be set up early this week. We are at it. Today is the earliest day of the week. The committee will be set up and its terms of reference cannot be kept secret,” he said.
On the internal security situation, he said Left-wing extremism remained a cause of grave concern. In 2009, Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern States witnessed the lowest level of violence in many years.