The Telangana Congress Steering Committee today resolved to mount pressure on the Centre for the introduction of Telangana Bill in the ongoing Parliament sessions.
The decision was taken in an emergency Committee meeting held in the wake of a student suicide for Telangana Statehood at Warangal, at the residence of Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy here.
Briefing the mediapersons after the meeting, Telangana Congress MP Gutta Sukhender Reddy said the Congress MPs
would mount pressure on the Congress high command for the introduction of Telangana Bill in the on-going Budget
session of the Parliament and reminded that the decision on Telangana was delayed citing assembly elections in five State. “Since the elections are now over, the Congress high command should announce its decision on the statehood issue and introduce the Telangana Bill in the Parliament,” he opined.
“We are strongly committed with the Telangana issue and it’s main agenda was to achieve ‘T’State instead of
holding posts,” he said. Denying the allegations that the Telangana MPs were responsible for the defeat of Congress candidates in the by-elections in the region, he said the MPs have played their role and the candidates and ministers who were made in-charge of those constituencies should be held responsible for the debacle.
All Congress MPs would meet again tomorrow in New Delhi to finalise the future course of action, Mr Gutta
added.
Reacting to the suicide by MBA student Bhojya Naik in Warangal, another Congress MP Manda Jagannatham said the
Steering Committee has paid condolence to Naik and expressed sympathies with the family. However, he said
committing suicide was not the right path to achieve Telangana State.
He advised the youth and students from the region to restrain from such acts and participate in the peaceful
agitation to achieve their statehood goal.
He said that the statements and obstacles created by Seemandhra leaders were responsible for Naik’s suidice.
He requested the Seemandhra leaders not to create further obstacles in the formation of Telangana.
Among those who attended the meeting are Lok Sabha MPs G Vivek, S Rajaiah and Balram Naik and MLCs KR Amos and
Yadav Reddy.
While the Steering Committee’s meeting was on, about 50 activists including students of Telangana Jagruthi and
TRSV staged a dharna before Jana Reddy’s residence.
They shouted slogans accusing the Congress leaders of betraying the Telangana cause. They demanded that the MPs and Ministers should resign from their posts and join the statehood agitation.
Police, who timely intervend, dispersed the activists trying to create tension by raising slogans against the
Congress leaders on ‘T’ issue.
UNI
