TRS demands Centre to take steps over Telangana statehood

Warangal, Apr 27 (UNI) The Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) today adopted five resolutions including demanding the Centre to initiate steps for the formation of a separate Telangana state.

Moving the resolutions at a public meeting organised on the occasion of the TRS anniversary in Warangal town, the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao demanded that the Centre issue special orders to stop the works at Babli project across Godavari river, scrap the government order that had made it madatory to print 'skull and bones' on beedi packets, supply 200tmc Krishna water to Nalgonda district and establish IIT institute at Basara in Adilabad district instead in Medak.

Alleging that the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was shedding 'crocodile tears' on backward Telangana region, he said the TDP was politicising the Babli issue to gain political mileage.

Stating that a Telangana state would be realised once the Centre introduced a bill in Parliament, he alleged that the Centre was cheating the Telangana by not implementing the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) which had mentioned about a seperate Telangana state.

More than 33 political parties including Left were supporting the Telangana, he said and added that the bill would be enacted with absolute majority once the bill was introduced.

Demanding that the TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu give the details of Telangana water share in Godavari and Krishna rivers, Mr Rao alleged that M Naidu and the Chief minister Y S Rrajasekhara Reddy were cheating the Telangana by not providing sufficient water for irrigation since several years.

UNI