No ‘fake’ encounters: Chiranjeevi

Ranga Reddy, February 25: The Praja Rajyam party founder president Konidela Chiranjeevi said that social justice was possible only through the ballot and democracy has come to be accepted as the best instrument for social change.

Chiranjeevi said in the Ex-naxalites Forum meeting at L.B. Nagar, Ranga Reddy districe on Tuesday. In this occasion few Maoist naxalites are joined in the party.

PRP leader said that while he had sympathy for people on the “revolutionary path”, there was no place for violence in a democracy.

He said that that there will no “fake” encounters if Praja Rajyam Party government comes to power and efforts will be made to release political prisoners and all necessary steps taken to rehabilitate surrendered naxalites. “We do not view Naxalism as a law and order problem but a socio-economic issue which has to be tackled from the roots,” he observed.

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A.P. Alliance seeks action against YSR

Major Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh, including the TDP, the TRS, the CPI and the CPI(M), on Wednesday, alleged that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his son Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had accumulated Rs. 10,000-crore worth wealth and sought their prosecution by the Centre.

The grand alliance consisting of TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, CPI State secretary K. Narayana and CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavalu, led a 100-member delegation of MPs, MLAs and MLCs from the State and met Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta and sought a fair investigation into the alleged misdeeds of Dr. Reddy and his family members.

Mr. Naidu told mediapersons that the delegation would call on President Pratibha Patil, External Affairs and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and all the floor leaders in the Parliament.

They would consider moving the Supreme Court if no satisfactory action was taken by the Centre.

Rosaiah clarifies on composition of panel

The committee of legislators of both Houses to deliberate the issues and concerns on the formation of Telangana will after all be a government committee comprising political parties.

Amid charges that the government had taken parties for ride on the issue of constituting the committee, Finance Minister K. Rosaiah told reporters here on Wednesday that the committee announced in the Assembly by Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on February 12 would comprise members of political parties.

“It is not a joint house committee as is being made out,” he said clarifying that Dr. Reddy never referred to the joint house panel. But, he said the Chief Minister would give further clarity on the issue in a day or two.

The Finance Minister’s remarks came after uproar over Chief Secretary P. Ramakant Reddy writing letters to the political parties instead of the Legislature Secretariat doing the work on the directions of the Assembly Speaker or the Council Chairman.

Mr. Rosaiah created a flutter by stating that the committee would neither concede Telangana nor oppose the statehood. “It has been constituted only to look into the concerns of the stakeholders,” he added.

It may be recalled that Dr. Reddy informed the Assembly last week the government had no objection for the formation of Telangana State in principle and that the time has come to move forward decisively on the issue. However, before taking a decision many of the issues need to be resolved as serious concerns have been raised by the stake-holders.

He further stated that the State government had decided to constitute a committee of members of both the Houses to deliberate the issues and concerns on the formation of Telangana and further steps could be taken after the report from the joint committee is submitted to the government.

YSR Check to ‘Telangana’ Statehood?

The Chief Minister of AP YS Rajashekhar Reddy started another game with Telangana People, also with other political party’s.

Rajashekhar Reddy give his conditional ‘accept’ to the separate Telangana state issue.

Unable to withstand the intense pressure on the Telengana statehood issue both from within his own Congress party members and the mega alliance of TDP, TRS, CPI, CPM, the CM yesterday said that he had no objection to agree to an issue of separate Telengana as long as there was consensus on the various questions raised on that front.


The Chief Minister on Thursday announced constitution of a joint committee of members of Assembly and Council to deliberate issues and concerns on formation of Telangana.

Reddy made this far-reaching political announcement in the Assembly shortly before its budget session came to a close, even while declaring that “the State government has no objection to formation of Telangana State in principle” and that ‘time has come to move decisively on the matter”.

However, the committee is being formed since many issues needed to be resolved before taking any decision and as serious concerns have been raised by stakeholders, he said. Further steps could be taken after the committee submits its report, he added, ending day-long speculation over the subject of his statement.

Members of grand alliance of Telugu Desam Party, Telangana Rashtra Samiti, CPI (M) and CPI stormed the podium and threw papers, resenting that this was not they had expected of him. Unruffled by the din and disturbance, Dr. Reddy read out the two-page text.

The concerns elucidated by him included the demands raised for separate States of Rayalaseema and North Coastal Andhra, strong opposition by Muslims on the plea that they would not be safe in Telangana State and views of those who settled down in Hyderabad, hailing from different regions of the State.

“The question is whether Andhra Pradesh should be divided into three or four States,” he said, as the members of grand alliance shouted slogans against Dr. Reddy.

Congress members thumped desks when Dr. Reddy observed that the emotive issue of Telangana was close to his heart and the Congress. From the beginning, the party favored constitution of a Second States Re-organization Commission to look into all demands for separate States.

The NDA government, in contrast, rejected outright a Congress request in 1999 to form the Second SRC. Though the Pranab Mukherjee Committee strove to achieve a consensus on Telangana it was in vain.

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MRPS activist’s protest at AP Assembly

Hyderabad, February 05: The Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti activists created a disturbance on Wednesday when they climbed atop the Assembly building and threatened to jump from there to highlight their demand for categorisation of the Scheduled Castes.

A total of 27 MRPS activists and its student’s wing entered the Assembly lobbies on Monday afternoon and ran amock.

The activists entered the Assembly on visitors passes issued by ministers and MLAs.

While 10 activists rushed to the Assembly terrace and threatened to jump, the others locked themselves in the three offices shared by the ministers, K. Jana Reddy, J.C. Diwakar Reddy, Koneru Ranga Rao, Kanna Laxminarayana, Ponnala Laxmaiah and N. Raghuveera Reddy.

They were cleared after about half-an-hour.

The Hyderabad city police commissioner, B. Prasada Rao, denied intelligence failure saying the activists seemed to have entered Assembly with valid passes.

Balakrishna road shows get crowded

Kurnool, February 04: The Tollywood Actor turned politician Nandamoori Balakrishna getting heavy response from the general public for his continuous road shows in Kurnool district for the third day on Tuesday, covering Chagalamarri, Sirvel, Rudravaram, Nandyal, Panyam and Kallur townships.

Balakrishna tried to enthuse the crowd by dramatics like slapping his thigh, holding a baby in arms, riding a bullock cart, a bicycle and having lunch at the house of one of his fans at Govindapalli.

The actor Balakrishna fans and Telugu Desham Party supporters, also alliance party’s supporters showered flower petals on the actor from tree tops.

Balakrishna worshipped at a Durga shrine near Sirivel of Kurnool district.

The actor tried to bring into focus the suffering and travails of people during the Congress rule.

He also asked the supporters defeat Congress, BJP and Praja Rajayam Party’s in forthcoming assembly and parliament elections.

He said the Telugu Desham alone could ensure social justice as it had a track record of making BCs top ranking Ministers and Speakers of the Assembly and Lok Sabha.

“My job is to fulfil the promises made by the party during the election”, he promised in road show. He urged people to give a chance to Chandrababu Naidu Party and his alliance party’s leaders Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy, Irigela Rampulla Reddy, Y. Venkat Reddy accompanied him.

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