JAC nixes TDP proposal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The Telangana JAC convener M Kodandaram on Monday turned down TDP’s proposal to hand over 38 resignation letters to him with an assurance that they would meet the Speaker and get them accepted if the Congress MLAs from Telangana region also announce their decision to quit the assembly.
Talking to media, Kodandaram said that handing over the letters to him would not serve any purpose and instead, they should give them to Speaker directly. “I am not the authority to accept them,” Kodandaram said.
He was of the opinion that the TDP should not wait for Congress MLAs. If TDP also resigns than it would become easy to mount pressure on the Congress MLAs, he felt. But TDP leaders N Janardhan Reddy and others feel that it would only result in forcing a by election. “No constitutional crisis can be created by about 50 people resigning from the assembly,” Janardhan Reddy said. On the other hand, the BJP floor leader G Kishen Reddy is understood to have decided to seek an opportunity from the speaker to explain in the assembly why he wants to resign.
According to Kodandaram, since the deadline for the Telangana MLAs to resign was over on Monday evening, the JAC will put pressure on them by organising agitational programmes in front of their houses from Tuesday.
Asked if the JAC would move its office to another place in the wake of Speaker’s decision not to allow any political meetings in the premises of MLA quarters, he said he was yet to receive the orders and would abide by it. Strongly condemning the police lathicharge on students at OU, the JAC leader demanded government to withdraw police forces from the campus immediately.
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CM scares mantris with prez rule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: Chief minister K Rosaiah is believed to have lost his cool during the cabinet meeting on Monday and told ministers that if they continue to behave in the same manner, the state will soon be under president’s rule.
He is learnt to have expressed his anger and agony over congress MLAs raising slogans during Governor’s address. He said it was an insult to the party and the high command. According to sources, Rosaiah expressed his unhappiness over the failure of ministers to have control on MLAs from their region. “If things go beyond a point, there will be nothing in my hands and do not blame me if president’s rule is imposed,” he is said to have remarked.
Referring to growing differences among the ministers, the CM said: “If regionalism comes to fore or gains primacy among ministers, it is difficult to run the government. Welfare schemes and all other developmental activities will suffer. If none of you are interested let’s get the House dissolved and go home.”
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T-agitators target ministers’ houses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: Telangana protesters on Monday attacked the houses of several Congress ministers and MLAs to press for their resignations from the assembly.
Raising slogans to the effect that the Congress ministers and MLAs should quit the House and work for Telangana state, the protesters, including ABVP activists, pelted stones, threw cow dung, eggs and tomatoes at the houses of Congress leaders in Warangal, Nalgonda, Khammam, Adilabad, Medak, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Ranga Reddy districts. The only TDP MLA who was targeted by the protesters was K Harishwar Reddy from Parigi in Ranga Reddy district.
In Hyderabad, girls students who suffered injuries due to police action on Osmania University campus, heckled home minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and raised slogans against her when she called on them at Durgabhai Deshmukh Hospital on Monday.
Sources said, these attacks virtually sealed the chances of ministers and MLAs visiting their constituencies and towns in future. The Congress has 52 MLAs from Telangana. Barring a few MLAs who are actively involved in the T movement, ministers and MLAs have stopped the tours in the region for the past three months. Those who ventured out had to face the wrath of the activists.
Largest number of attacks took place in Warangal district where the house of irrigation minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah had become the target of ire along with the houses of MLAs Konda Surekha, M Kavita, T Rajaiah, Gandra Venkataramana Reddy and MLC Rajalingam. The attackers are said to belong to the ABVP.
Around the same time, attacks took place on the houses of minister Komatireddy Venktareddy and Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Lok Sabha member from Nalgonda. The house of MLA T Lingaiah was also targeted by the protesters in Narketpalli.
Similarly T-protagonists attacked the houses of minister P Sudarshan Reddy in Nizamabad district. Reddy is the lone MLA from the Congress from the district. Reddy has been avoiding the district ever since the T-trouble started brewing in the district.
When he first tried to visit the town last week, activists forced him to give an assurance that he would resign from the cabinet if the terms of reference for the Srikrishna commission were against the Telangana. So, the activists today demanded his resignation both from the cabinet and the assembly. Advocates from the town staged a dharna in front of the house of PCC president D Srinivas. Incidentally, DS is not a member of the assembly.
In Khammam, the house of minister R Venkat Reddy was attacked by the members of Progressive Democratic students Union (PDSU), who demanded his immediate resignation.
The activist attacked the house of Athram Sakkum, the lone MLA from the Congress in Adilabad district with tomatoes and stones. They staged dharna in front of the houses of minister D Sridhar and MP Ponnam Prabhakar in Karimnagar district. In Mahbubnagar, windows of minister D K Aruna’s house were damaged by T-activists. Police had to resort to lathicharge to quell the mob. The miscreants attacked the houses of ministers Damodar Rajanarasimha and Sunitha Lakshma Reddy in Sangareddy and Narsapur respectively in Medak district.
Meanwhile, the speaker’s decision on the resignations of Congress MLAs R Damodar Reddy and Ch Mutyam Reddy is awaited. Talking to media, Damodar Reddy said there would be no going back on the resignation despite the attempts to persuade him by the party. “I will not take back my resignation from the assembly,” Reddy said.
Opposition parties boycott Assembly breakfast
The demand for separate T state and the lathicharge on students and mediamen at Osmania University on Sunday night had its impact on the customary breakfast hosted by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the chairman of the council on Monday. The TDP, including opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu, CPI and BJP on Monday boycotted the customary breakfast. The Congress was divided on this issue as the ministers from Telangana region came for the breakfast while the MLAs decided to keep away. Soon after the chief minister and other leaders came to Jubilee Hall in Public Gardens, where the breakfast was hosted, media representatives raised slogans against the attack on them by police. The scribes demanded suspension of the policemen responsible for the attack. The chief minister called the media persons, offered his regrets over the incident and assured that action would be taken after he receives the report from the human rights commission. He also told them that he would take measures to ensure that such incidents do not occur again in future. TNN
Courtesy: Times of India-Hyderabad- Dt. 16-2-2010
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The Telangana JAC convener M Kodandaram on Monday turned down TDP’s proposal to hand over 38 resignation letters to him with an assurance that they would meet the Speaker and get them accepted if the Congress MLAs from Telangana region also announce their decision to quit the assembly.
Talking to media, Kodandaram said that handing over the letters to him would not serve any purpose and instead, they should give them to Speaker directly. “I am not the authority to accept them,” Kodandaram said.
He was of the opinion that the TDP should not wait for Congress MLAs. If TDP also resigns than it would become easy to mount pressure on the Congress MLAs, he felt. But TDP leaders N Janardhan Reddy and others feel that it would only result in forcing a by election. “No constitutional crisis can be created by about 50 people resigning from the assembly,” Janardhan Reddy said. On the other hand, the BJP floor leader G Kishen Reddy is understood to have decided to seek an opportunity from the speaker to explain in the assembly why he wants to resign.
According to Kodandaram, since the deadline for the Telangana MLAs to resign was over on Monday evening, the JAC will put pressure on them by organising agitational programmes in front of their houses from Tuesday.
Asked if the JAC would move its office to another place in the wake of Speaker’s decision not to allow any political meetings in the premises of MLA quarters, he said he was yet to receive the orders and would abide by it. Strongly condemning the police lathicharge on students at OU, the JAC leader demanded government to withdraw police forces from the campus immediately.
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CM scares mantris with prez rule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: Chief minister K Rosaiah is believed to have lost his cool during the cabinet meeting on Monday and told ministers that if they continue to behave in the same manner, the state will soon be under president’s rule.
He is learnt to have expressed his anger and agony over congress MLAs raising slogans during Governor’s address. He said it was an insult to the party and the high command. According to sources, Rosaiah expressed his unhappiness over the failure of ministers to have control on MLAs from their region. “If things go beyond a point, there will be nothing in my hands and do not blame me if president’s rule is imposed,” he is said to have remarked.
Referring to growing differences among the ministers, the CM said: “If regionalism comes to fore or gains primacy among ministers, it is difficult to run the government. Welfare schemes and all other developmental activities will suffer. If none of you are interested let’s get the House dissolved and go home.”
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T-agitators target ministers’ houses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: Telangana protesters on Monday attacked the houses of several Congress ministers and MLAs to press for their resignations from the assembly.
Raising slogans to the effect that the Congress ministers and MLAs should quit the House and work for Telangana state, the protesters, including ABVP activists, pelted stones, threw cow dung, eggs and tomatoes at the houses of Congress leaders in Warangal, Nalgonda, Khammam, Adilabad, Medak, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Ranga Reddy districts. The only TDP MLA who was targeted by the protesters was K Harishwar Reddy from Parigi in Ranga Reddy district.
In Hyderabad, girls students who suffered injuries due to police action on Osmania University campus, heckled home minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and raised slogans against her when she called on them at Durgabhai Deshmukh Hospital on Monday.
Sources said, these attacks virtually sealed the chances of ministers and MLAs visiting their constituencies and towns in future. The Congress has 52 MLAs from Telangana. Barring a few MLAs who are actively involved in the T movement, ministers and MLAs have stopped the tours in the region for the past three months. Those who ventured out had to face the wrath of the activists.
Largest number of attacks took place in Warangal district where the house of irrigation minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah had become the target of ire along with the houses of MLAs Konda Surekha, M Kavita, T Rajaiah, Gandra Venkataramana Reddy and MLC Rajalingam. The attackers are said to belong to the ABVP.
Around the same time, attacks took place on the houses of minister Komatireddy Venktareddy and Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Lok Sabha member from Nalgonda. The house of MLA T Lingaiah was also targeted by the protesters in Narketpalli.
Similarly T-protagonists attacked the houses of minister P Sudarshan Reddy in Nizamabad district. Reddy is the lone MLA from the Congress from the district. Reddy has been avoiding the district ever since the T-trouble started brewing in the district.
When he first tried to visit the town last week, activists forced him to give an assurance that he would resign from the cabinet if the terms of reference for the Srikrishna commission were against the Telangana. So, the activists today demanded his resignation both from the cabinet and the assembly. Advocates from the town staged a dharna in front of the house of PCC president D Srinivas. Incidentally, DS is not a member of the assembly.
In Khammam, the house of minister R Venkat Reddy was attacked by the members of Progressive Democratic students Union (PDSU), who demanded his immediate resignation.
The activist attacked the house of Athram Sakkum, the lone MLA from the Congress in Adilabad district with tomatoes and stones. They staged dharna in front of the houses of minister D Sridhar and MP Ponnam Prabhakar in Karimnagar district. In Mahbubnagar, windows of minister D K Aruna’s house were damaged by T-activists. Police had to resort to lathicharge to quell the mob. The miscreants attacked the houses of ministers Damodar Rajanarasimha and Sunitha Lakshma Reddy in Sangareddy and Narsapur respectively in Medak district.
Meanwhile, the speaker’s decision on the resignations of Congress MLAs R Damodar Reddy and Ch Mutyam Reddy is awaited. Talking to media, Damodar Reddy said there would be no going back on the resignation despite the attempts to persuade him by the party. “I will not take back my resignation from the assembly,” Reddy said.
Opposition parties boycott Assembly breakfast
The demand for separate T state and the lathicharge on students and mediamen at Osmania University on Sunday night had its impact on the customary breakfast hosted by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the chairman of the council on Monday. The TDP, including opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu, CPI and BJP on Monday boycotted the customary breakfast. The Congress was divided on this issue as the ministers from Telangana region came for the breakfast while the MLAs decided to keep away. Soon after the chief minister and other leaders came to Jubilee Hall in Public Gardens, where the breakfast was hosted, media representatives raised slogans against the attack on them by police. The scribes demanded suspension of the policemen responsible for the attack. The chief minister called the media persons, offered his regrets over the incident and assured that action would be taken after he receives the report from the human rights commission. He also told them that he would take measures to ensure that such incidents do not occur again in future. TNN
Courtesy: Times of India-Hyderabad- Dt. 16-2-2010
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