TRS to step up stir against Cong for Telangana

Hyderabad, Feb 4: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), spearheading a movement for separate Telangana state, has opined that formation of Second States Reorganisation Commission(SRC) by the United Progressive Alliance(UPA) Government was not possible, considering the compulsions of coalition politics.

The question of constituting second SRC did not figure in the UPA Government's Common Minimum Programme(CMP) and any deviation from the CMP, would not be accepted by UPA constituents, TRS spokesman Madhusudanachari told UNI.

He reminded the Congress that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not leading a party government, but a coalition one. The Congress party's views could not be imposed on the coalition government, he said.

Mr Madhusudanachari said the Communist Party of India(Marxist) had already clarified that it would oppose the move to constitute second SRC, deviating from the CMP.

It may be recalled that TRS chief and then Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekara Rao, while quitting the Manmohan Singh Government along with his deputy and the then Union Minister of State for Rural Development A Narendra in protest against the delay in taking a decision on the statehood issue, had not withdrawn support from the coalition government.

While continuing the ''Palle Bhata''(Reaching to villages) to strengthen the party at the grassroots level, Mr Madhusudanachari said, the party would intensify stirs against the Congress Government in the state during February and March in support of the weaker sections, including the farmers, weavers and students. The party would protest against the 'injustice' meted out to Telangana region by the UPA Government at the Centre and the Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh during the budget session of Parliament and in the State Assembly, even while maintaining the tempo on the statehood issue, he said.

The TRS would also step up stirs against the Government's decision to go ahead with the Pothireddypadu Head Regulator Expansion Project, allegedly denying Telangana's 'rightful' share of Krishna waters, and also against the flouride problem in Nalgonda district.

The party would hold a massive convention in Warangal on April 24, the party formation day, inviting leaders of other political parties sympathetic to the cause of separate statehood for Telangana

UNI