Telangana turmoil: Jagan holds public meeting in support of 'united Andhra Pradesh'

• Despite rains, you have come in lakhs.
• Despite lakhs of crop under water, you were sent by your mother and sister, brother and sister back home. I thank them.
• We will support any Prime Minister who stands for and supports united Andhra Pradesh
  

1. The empowered Group of Ministers, now scheduled to meet on October 19, has assured the people of Andhra Pradesh that full justice will be done while drafting the guidelines of bifurcating the state to create India's 29th state.

2. The terms of reference for the GoM include determining the boundaries of the new state of Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh with reference to the electoral constituencies, judicial and statutory bodies, and other administrative units.
   

3. Sources said the GoM is not in favour of giving the Union Territory status to Hyderabad, the state capital which is at the heart of the bitter Telangana-Seemandhra divide. The IT city will be a common capital between the two states for 10 years. Sources also said the senior ministers are in favour of the Seemandhra leaders deciding on their own capital.

4. The government is also reportedly contemplating a special financial package for the Seemandhra region, which is witnessing massive protests over the Centre's decision announced last week.The GoM will also elicit responses from water, finance, road transport and infrastructure departments in Andhra Pradesh to work out the division of their assets once Telangana is created, sources said.

5. Sources said the Group of Ministers has no plans to visit Andhra Pradesh for now, and will ground its discussions on the Sri Krishna Commission report which favoured the creation of Telangana. Besides Mr Shinde, Mr Chidambaram and Mr Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, M Veerappa Moily and Jairam Ramesh are the other members of the GoM while Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, V Narayanasamy, is a special invitee.

The Group of Ministers (GoM) on bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and creation of Telangana will hold its first meeting today

• GoM will submit a note to the Cabinet which will then take a decision and send it to the President. The president will then send it to the Assembly
• In this case the resolution was tried earlier but it is in abeyance by the state itself since the Cabinet has passed an order for the GoM
• All points will be taken into consideration and justice will be given to the people of Andhra Pradesh 
• I don't think there is any possibility of going back on Telanagana
  
• I cannot commit on whether or not we will bring President's Rule

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