Hyderabad, January 10:: Reiterating the stand of Telangana Congress leaders’ on resignations, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and Rajya Sabha MP Mr K Keshava Rao has said that they would do whatever required to bring pressure on the Centre to introduce the Telangana bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament. He opined that it would be an ‘unfortunate thing’ if President’s rule is imposed in the State, and said that it was in extreme imagination.
Speaking to the media at his residence on Sunday along with the Endowment’s minister Mr Jupally Krishna Rao, Dubbak MLA Mr Cheruku Muthyam Reddy, former MLA Mr Komireddy Ramulu and others after a meeting with them, Mr Keshava Rao said that the Telangana Congress leaders would chalk out an action plan on January 11 after a comprehensive meeting with the village to national level leaders at Kalinga Bhavan here.
Describing the Justice Srikrishna Committee report as a confused one, the Rajya Sabha Member said that they have to study the report in depth along with the University professors. He said that the Committee’s report mentioned about the injustice meted out to the Telangana region from first point to sixth point. He said that the Committee also recommended that the Centre has to consider the sixth point as the first, if and only when it was not possible to create Telangana state as mentioned in the fifth point. He said that the Centre had already announced on December 9, 2009 that the process of creation of Telangana state has begun, and added that they will see any report in this context only. He also said that the Committee nowhere mentioned that the Telangana movement was wrong.
Exuding confidence that the Centre will introduce the Telangana bill in the forthcoming parliament session, Mr Keshava Rao said that they will chalk out an action plan for the due time. He said that they were ready to submit their resignations if Telangana could be achieved through their resignations. He made it clear that the Telangana Congress leaders will not compromise in achieving separate state along with the Hyderabad as its capital. He said that they were ready to address if anyone had apprehensions about their protection in Hyderabad. He said that the Telangana Congress leaders will concentrate on talking on the report, to convince others, putting all kinds of moral pressure on Centre and taking people’s co-operation to fight united.
Demanding the government to withdraw paramilitary forces from the Osmania University, he said that he spoke to the Home Minister, DGP, Press Council of India and State Human Rights Commission on Osmania University situation and added that the students were not criminals and the forces were forcing the students to become criminals with their provocative action. He said that the forces have to be withdrawn from the University so that the students would be satisfied with the government’s action. He said that the students were not happy at the Committee’s report and hence they were trying to express their unhappiness, but not allowing them to express it. He asked, “don’t they have a right to cry when injustice was meted out to them”. He said that the students were his real strength and added that he will be in the forefront of the movement till Telangana was achieved without any compromise.
He said that he spoke to the Seemandhra MPs and added that he will speak with them once again on the Telangana issue.
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