Tag Archives: bifurcation

Justice Sri Krishna Committee Contact Details

Want to contact the Justice Srikrishna Committee examining the request for Telangana? The Committee is now seeking the opinions of political parties, organizations, individuals & groups on the vexed issue, and its contact details, including email, telephone numbers and address have been given out as below. You can do the following to reach them:
1. Write [...]

10 INVALID Reasons For ‘Telangana State’

Why Telangana state should be formed? There should be valid reasons. And the following are the top-10 reasons being expressed by T-activists. Just judge by heart if they are valid or invalid.
1. Our language is different and our slang is different. This is what Telangana leaders repeatedly say defending their argument for the formation [...]

Smaller states don’t lead to better governance: Economist

While the growth and development of Andhra Pradesh in the last decade has been lopsided, the bifurcation of the state is not the panacea, feels a leading Indian economist.
Professor Nirupam Bajpai, director of the South Asian programme at New York’s Columbia University, says while Andhra Pradesh has done relatively better in the last ten years [...]

T.G. Venkatesh optimistic

Says Centre would announce revised decision on division of State by Thursday
KURNOOL: T.G. Venkatesh, president of Rayalaseema Hakkula Ikya Vedika and MLA, indicated that the Central government would announce a revised decision on the State division by Thursday. Talking to reporters here on Sunday, he said the Union Ministers and other top heads involved in [...]

‘Sonia statement on crisis today’

KADAPA: Union Minister of State for Steel A. Sai Prathap on Sunday night indicated that the Congress leadership may make a statement on Monday that would lead to resolving the current political turmoil.
Recalling his discussions with AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Union Ministers Veerappa Moily, Pranab Mukherjee and P. Chidamabaram, the Minister said they indicated [...]

Hong Kong model for Hyderabad?

HYDERABAD: The impasse continues with no signs of any way out. Lagadapati Rajagopal and others are still on fast for a United Andhra Pradesh, Chiranjeevi embarks on a yatra for the same purpose.
Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) pooh-poohs the United Andhra movement warning that there will be a bloodbath if the Telangana process is derailed. Both the [...]

Has Congress,in their attempt to appease certain people, set a bad and dangerous precedence of agreeing to create the state of Telangana?

Summary of comments below: Except a handful of people, comments by people of all regions is that they want the state to stay united. They don’t want an Italian to assume the role of Mountbatten. We had enough damage from one partition. We don’t need another. The key question asked below is, ‘What were the [...]

10 AU students attempt suicide

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Andhra University students intensified their Samaikhya Andhra agitation on Wednesday with 10 fasting students threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the King George Hospital building on Wednesday. However, they were brought down by the police and confined to their blocks in the hospital later in the day.
The drama began at around 11 [...]

Jagan aide joins fast bandwagon

ANANTAPUR: Emboldened by the spate of fasts taken up by leaders, Congress MLA K Venkatrami Reddy, a close aide of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday sat on `fast-unto-death’ in protest against separate Telangana even as tension mounted at the Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SKU) campus, where eight students, teaching and non-teaching staff launched hunger strike.
While [...]

TN, K’taka border villages join ‘united’ struggle

CHITTOOR: The Samaikhya Andhra movement has spread its wings to the border villages of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with activists conducting rallies, dharnas, rasta rokos and protest demonstrations in support of united Andhra.
Though the people live in Chittoor district, a majority of them are Tamilians and Kannadigas settled here long time ago. Though they are [...]

Centre mulling UT status for Hyderabad?

HYDERABAD: In a bid to mollify anti-Telangana protesters and pave the way for smooth creation of a separate state, the Centre is weighing the options of declaring Hyderabad a Union Territory (UT).
Sources in touch with the Congress high command said the latter avers that according Union Territory status to Hyderabad would pave the way for [...]

Parties firm on ‘Samaikhya Andhra’

Leaders want Central Government to withdraw its commitment to carve out separate Telangana
TRS chief accused of endangering integrity of Andhra Pradesh
Government should not bow to pressure tactics, says leaders
Kakinada: Congress and Praja Rajyam Party leaders have asserted that their ‘Samaikhya Andhra’ agitation will continue till the Central Government withdrew its commitment to form Telangana State. [...]

Sad News: 2 Samaikhya Andhra activists commit suicide

Two Samaikhya Andhra activists allegedly committed suicide in protest against the division of the state. Vemula Srinivas, 30, of Basavatarakanagar in Guntur committed suicide by jumping in front a speeding train while chanting united Andhra slogans in the late hours of Tuesday. Senior TDP leaders Kodela Sivaprasad Rao, Prattipati Pullarao and Madala Rajendra visited the [...]

Andhra Pradesh political crisis and the role of the media

Half a century ago, on December 19, 1952, to be precise, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced the formation of a new State of Andhra. It was separated from an unwieldy and composite Madras State, which then comprised people speaking Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, along with a few other languages. Comprising mostly Telugu-speaking people, Andhra [...]