Hyderabad, December 08: With the State Government deciding against introducing a resolution in the ongoing winter session of the Assembly urging the Centre to take a favourable decision on statehood for Telangana, TRS members have decided to move a private resolution.
The Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly, which met here today to finalise the agenda for the winter session, witnessed difference of opinion on the matter. While the TRS insisted that government move a resolution and the TDP said it had no objection to supporting it, sources said it was Chief Minster K Rosaiah who refused to do so.
TRS Legislature Party (TRSLP) leader E Rajendar and MLA E Ravindar Reddy demanded that the Assembly pass a resolution on Telangana.
Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu said that if the government introduced the same, it was ready to support it, and PRP and BJP members said they would do likewise.
The chief minister said the Congress was not ready to move a resolution on Telangana but was ready to discuss the demand “threadbare’’ in the Assembly. He said the Congress high command was “seized of the matter’’.
The discussion witnessed much friction between TRS and Congress members.
At this juncture, Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy adjourned the meeting.
Consequently, the BAC could not finalise the adoption of a resolution on the Hyderabad free zone issue. For his part, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu condemned the lathicharge on students on the Osmania University campus.
The meeting decided that the sessions would be held between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to discuss the Telangana issue.
On December 15, however, there would be an evening session to pass government bills. Floods, drought and mines policy would also be discussed.
–Agencies