A new state cannot be created in the ad hoc manner like the demand for Telangana was conceded, writes Seema Mustafa.
A Chinese analyst in an article hinted just a few weeks ago that with a ‘little action’ India could be broken into little pieces. As expected the article had elicited strong response from the establishment [...]
In a major political development, Praja Rajyam Party chief and Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi resigned from the state assembly on Thursday, in a bid to throw his weight for a united Andhra Pradesh.
Chiranjeevi, who had fought the last elections promising a separate Telangana state, changed his position late on Wednesday night after constant pressure from his [...]
Is small beautiful? Are small states better governed? Here we present a debate featuring two veteran political leaders in the wake of the Telangana statehood row.
Mani Shankar Aiyar , former minister for Panchayati Raj.
The question whether smaller states are better governed than bigger ones is irrelevant. In our experience, both large and small states will continue to [...]
Ducking and running for cover following the Telangana muddle, the United Progresive Alliance government is now looking to once again pursue the case for a united Andhra Pradesh after divisions surfaced in the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs convened by the prime minister on Tuesday night.
With key UPA allies — the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , the Trinamul Congress [...]
An emergency meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night took no decision on the vexed Telengana.
Choosing to keep mum on the issue, the meet felt any decision will only trigger more protests and violence, while stressing the need to restore peace and harmony in Andhra Pradesh.
Agriculture [...]
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Posted 16 December 2009
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Samaikhya Andhra § Samaikya Andhra § Telugu § Telugu Rashtram § Telugu Unity
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Tagged: Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, DMK, India, Manmohan Singh, NCP, Politics, Samaikhya Andhra, Sonia Gandhi, Telangana, Telugu, TMC, United Andhra, UPA
The fissures in the Congress over the Telangana issue came to the fore in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday when Y S Jaganmohan Reddy , along with some other party Members of Parliament, joined a Telugu Desam Party protest against the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
Jaganmohan, son of late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy [...]
Congress Member of Parliament L Rajagopal, who had threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike to oppose division of Andhra Pradesh, began his fast in Vijaywada on Tuesday.
“I wanted to undertake the fast in Hyderabad on Monday but I was not allowed to do so, I am continuing my fast here,” Rajagopal told media-persons. [...]
Is it right to divide the state of AP?
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Posted 15 December 2009
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We endorse the United Andhra Pradesh state in India Petition to President Of India.
Sign the United Andhra Pradesh state in India Petition here
80324 Signatures Total
To,
The President of India,
Rashtrapathi Bhavan,
New Delhi.
Respected Madam President,
We look forward to you for your kind intervention in the matter of the demand for a separate Telangana State, as it is engineered and pushed forward by self-seeking and short-sighted small – time power brokers, politically unemployed, arousing passions and raising a bogey of “non-development” — the [...]
San Francisco, CA: About 500 Telugu NRIs have met today in San Francisco bay area,California and adopted anonymous resolution in favor of Samaikya Andhra Pradesh. The participants hail from all regions of Andhra Pradesh – Telangana, Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. Speaker after speaker strongly condemned the nefarious acts of opportunistic politicians to divide the progressing [...]
Source: ibnlive.in.com/conversations/topic/107059-1-37
To
Smt Sonia Gandhi
Chairperson
UPA
Sub: – Political clamor for separate Telangana %u2013 Validity or otherwise thereof
Respected Madam,
Namasthe.
There is a huge clamour for a separate Telangana. However, most of it is artificial. It is whipped up by vested interests, the politically unemployed and powerbrokers.
The allegation that Telangana region has not developed or has developed less than the [...]
Teluguunity.com forwards to Telugurashtram.com
Telugurashtram.com is an effort to educate the people of Andhra Pradesh about the benefits of staying united. A separate state of Telangana will not solve the problems of the people in that region. If separate states were the solution to better governance, we would have seen a trend of that sort the world over. One [...]