New Delhi, February 14: So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna On the field of battle.
Not fare well, But fare forward…
(from TS Eliot: The Dry Salvages [Quartet No 3 of The Four Quartets]) It is in the spirit of getting on with its work, regardless of the fraught situation in which it has to be undertaken, that the Srikrishna Committee on Saturday decided to buckle up and complete its task even before the deadline of 31 December 2010.
Significantly, speaking to newspersons after emerging from the meeting, Justice Srikrishna reminded them that whichever committee he had headed so far had submitted its report well ahead of schedule.
The committee will meet again on February 25 and thereafter at least twice a month. Headquartered in Delhi, it will frequently visit Andhra Pradesh.
The panel is to visit Hyderabad soon and will travel anywhere in the State it felt necessary to elicit the views of all sections of society. The five-member committee headed by Justice Srikrishna held its first meeting here and chalked out certain plans.
During the three-hour-long deliberations it decided to issue a public notice on Monday seeking memoranda and representations from a cross-section of the people.
It would also elicit the views of political parties and organisations on the demands for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining status quo.
Emerging from the meeting, Justice Srikrishna said: “We will try and see what can be done. We have chalked out certain plans and propose to have interactions with all sections of society as soon as possible.
“We will ascertain their views. We will also hold a series of meetings with different strata of people in the affected areas,” he added.
To a query on protests in the State, Justice Srikrishna said: “We are not worried about that. We will do our work.” He said the task would be accomplished and the report submitted well before the deadline.
Justice Srikrishna sought the cooperation of all sections of society in Andhra Pradesh to ensure peace and an amicable solution to the aspirations of the people of all regions.
Meanwhile, police detained a group of students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University who held a protest outside Vigyan Bhavan here, the venue of the meeting.
——Agencies