Congressmen cancel Delhi trip

Congress leaders from Telangana region cancelled their planned trip to New Delhi on Tuesday, after the party high command took a serious view of the issue and issued a stern warning against such plans.

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T MLAs, MPs not to quit

Under pressure from the high command, Congress MLAs, MLCs and MPs from Telangana have decided to not to submit their resignations.

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OU: Cops hijack student's body

Police took control of the body of the Osmania University student who had committed suicide and several Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leaders were arrested Wednesday as protests for statehood to Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region took a violent turn.At least a dozen students and five policemen were injured in clashes in the sprawling Osmania University campus during the funeral procession of Venugopal Reddy, a final year MCA (master of computer applications) student, who had set himself on fire early Tuesday to protest the delay in carving out a Telangana state.

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Telangana ministers plan to sideline KCR

Telangana ministers are all set to visit New Delhi next week to exert pressure on the UPA government for Telangana state. The ministers do not want the TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, and his family take all credit for T state. The ministers want to give an impression that the UPA government has been processing the T issue only because of the Congress.

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Political rivalry may mar JAC bonhomie

The Telangana Joint Action Committee is under intense pressure due to wranglings among political parties. The Congress, TD, TRS, BJP, CPI, PR (Telangana group), MRPS and others, which came under one umbrella for the Telangana cause, are at loggerheads because of multiple issues.

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‘KCR’s family forgot promise’

Telangana leaders ranging from the PCC president, Mr D. Srinivas, the ministers, Mr Danam Nagender, and Mr Mukesh Goud, the Telugu Desam’s Mr Nagam Janardhan Reddy, Mr Talasani Srinivas Yadav, and Mr Aravind Kumar Goud have pointed out that the family of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, had forgotten its assurance to the people who had settled down in Hyderabad that they could lead a “happy life” even after the bifurcation of the state.

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TRS agitation on Jan.18

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti on Tuesday decided to stage a protest in front of the Assembly Speaker’s office here on January 18 to exert pressure for acceptance of the resignation of 10 party MLAs.

The TRS politburo at its meeting here also decided to continue its agitation till Telangana state is created.

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Telangana joint committee to meet Tuesday

With the central government yet to make an announcement on initiating the process for statehood to Telangana, the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) will hold a crucial meeting Tuesday to chalk out its future course of action.

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) legislator Harish Rao told reporters Sunday that the JAC would intensify the agitation if the central government fails to make any commitment on carving out Telangana state within a clear time-frame.

Prepared to wait for a while on Telangana: TRS

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), spearheading the campaign for statehood to Telangana region, said Sunday it was prepared to wait for a 'reasonable period' if the central government was sincere about creating a separate state in Andhra Pradesh.

'We are prepared to wait. There is a constitutional procedure and legal formalities have to be completed,' K. Jayashankar, a Telangana ideologue.

Jayashankar represented TRS along with party chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao at the government's talks with eight recognized political parties of Andhra Pradesh Jan 5.

Both Jayashankar and Rao have stayed put in Delhi since the talks in the hope of a government announcement to take forward the process of creating a new state. Rao has not spoken to the media for the past five days.