Telangana bill to be tabled in Rajya Sabha as President clears it

New Delhi, Feb 10: President

cleared the

bill and gave a go-ahead for it to be tabled in the parliament.

Now that it has got the acceptance by the president, he government is set to introduce the bill in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

On the other hand, Farooq Abdullah said that there had been "errors" in the handling of the Telangana row.

"I think it has gone terribly out of gear. Terribly out of gear. 70 per cent of people do not want division. If people of a state don't want the division of the state, and the state assembly has rejected it, then we should not go ahead with it in Parliament," he told reporters today.

Afetr Pranab Mukherjee approved the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill (Telangana Bill), it is to be sent back to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to introduce the Telangana Bill in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday and sources say that it might get approval from there also since Congress is also trying to get the bill approved.

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