Hyderabad, December 30: Srikrishna Committee headed by former Supreme Court judge is gearing up to submit its report to the Centre by December 31 while the Andhra Pradesh government is keeping its fingers crossed on how to deal with the issue as the year 2010 draws to a close.
During the year, there was a change of guard at the helm of affairs.
The political parties in the state, mainly the Telangana Rashtra Samithi which hit the headlines till the Srikrishna Committee was formed by the Centre in February this year, is maintaining stoic silence since then by waiting for how the Committee and its members would give its opinion to the Centre on the Telangana statehood.
The state has witnessed violence in the Telangana region and Seemaandhra regions till the committee was formed.
The political parties in the year requested the state government several times to lift more than 1,600 cases registered against the students and youth who had particpated in the pro and anti Telangana state movement after the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram advised the state government to consider withdrawing cases registered against students.
However, the state government headed by N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who hails from Chittoor District, had decided to withdraw about 565 cases of simple nature as announced in a statement in the Assembly.
But the Home Minister, P Sabita Indira Reddy who made the statement on behalf of the government, promised the house that the serious cases would be positively examined by the government in view of some cases in the courts.
Embarassing the state government, the Telangana Congress MPS launched Satyagraha on the issue which made the state government act and it lifted 135 cases more even as the fasting MPs were not satisfied with it.
Finally the state government, even though there were legal complications lifted all the cases registered against the students in both the regions paving way the T-MPs to end their fast.
Mr Reddy at a public meeting in Nizamabad yesterday said the state government would act on what the Centre decides on the Telangana issue.
–UNI