Committee On Telangana Issue

The government will form a committee to study the feasibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "One Nation, One Election", Union Minister Rajnath Singh said after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-party meeting on Wednesday. Most parties, he said, had supported the idea. Five key parties, including the Congress, however skipped the meet. Mamata B...

Congress leaders from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions plan to hold a meeting on October 17 to discuss their future course of action on the issue of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

A meeting of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Coordination Committee has reportedly been called on Monday to take the Congress allies on board before deciding on the contentious Telangana issue even as the party negotiates stiff opposition from its Andhra Pradesh ministers opposed to the bifurcation of the state.

Pro-Telangana groups are angry at the Centre deferring a decision on whether Andhra Pradesh should be split to create a separate state, and they plan protests in Hyderabad, focused on putting political pressure on the ruling Congress to stick to its deadline on the matter. The Telangana Joint Action Committee or TJAC is likely to call for social bo...

Justice B N Srikrishna Committee on Telangana will kick-off its consultation process on the statehood issue with political parties on Saturday when it would hear a delegation from the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti headed by its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao in New Delhi.

The Srikrishna Committee on Telangana issue has said it would wrap up consultations with key stakeholders by July this year and asked the Joint Action Council (JAC), spearheading the agitation for a separate state, not to boycott it.

The Justice B N Srikrishna committee on Telangana on Saturday issued a notice seeking views and suggestions from the public, political parties and local organisations on the contentious separate statehood issue.

Rejecting the terms of reference of the Sri Krishna Committee appointed to go into the issue of separate statehood, 15 MLAs from the Telangana region, including those of the ruling Congress, on Sunday submitted their resignation to Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Friday took stock of the situation arising out of price rise and discussed the Telangana statehood issue.

The reaction among those campaigning hardest for a new Telangana state was cautious. "We want a clear time frame for the formation of Telangana," said Professor Kodandaram.

The committee proposed to be appointed by the Centre to go into Telangana issue should stick to the December 9 time-frame, says all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee.

The political Joint Action Committee of Telangana extended the deadline for the UPA government to spell out timeframe on the formation of the new state till January 28.

Congress core group, which met on Friday on the Telangana issue, has unanimously said that the promised committee on Telangana will have to wait till normalcy returns to Andhra Pradesh.

Worried over the Telangana issue, a delegation of MPs from coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalseema met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday.

The government will form a committee to study the feasibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "One Nation, One Election", Union Minister Rajnath Singh said after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-party meeting on Wednesday. Most parties, he said, had supported the idea. Five key parties, including the Congress, however skipped the meet. Mamata B...

Congress leaders from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions plan to hold a meeting on October 17 to discuss their future course of action on the issue of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

A meeting of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Coordination Committee has reportedly been called on Monday to take the Congress allies on board before deciding on the contentious Telangana issue even as the party negotiates stiff opposition from its Andhra Pradesh ministers opposed to the bifurcation of the state.

Pro-Telangana groups are angry at the Centre deferring a decision on whether Andhra Pradesh should be split to create a separate state, and they plan protests in Hyderabad, focused on putting political pressure on the ruling Congress to stick to its deadline on the matter. The Telangana Joint Action Committee or TJAC is likely to call for social bo...

Justice B N Srikrishna Committee on Telangana will kick-off its consultation process on the statehood issue with political parties on Saturday when it would hear a delegation from the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti headed by its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao in New Delhi.

The Srikrishna Committee on Telangana issue has said it would wrap up consultations with key stakeholders by July this year and asked the Joint Action Council (JAC), spearheading the agitation for a separate state, not to boycott it.

The Justice B N Srikrishna committee on Telangana on Saturday issued a notice seeking views and suggestions from the public, political parties and local organisations on the contentious separate statehood issue.

Rejecting the terms of reference of the Sri Krishna Committee appointed to go into the issue of separate statehood, 15 MLAs from the Telangana region, including those of the ruling Congress, on Sunday submitted their resignation to Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Friday took stock of the situation arising out of price rise and discussed the Telangana statehood issue.

The reaction among those campaigning hardest for a new Telangana state was cautious. "We want a clear time frame for the formation of Telangana," said Professor Kodandaram.

The committee proposed to be appointed by the Centre to go into Telangana issue should stick to the December 9 time-frame, says all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee.

The political Joint Action Committee of Telangana extended the deadline for the UPA government to spell out timeframe on the formation of the new state till January 28.

Congress core group, which met on Friday on the Telangana issue, has unanimously said that the promised committee on Telangana will have to wait till normalcy returns to Andhra Pradesh.

Worried over the Telangana issue, a delegation of MPs from coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalseema met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday.