This Article is From Nov 18, 2013

Telangana: Ministerial panel concludes talks with stakeholders, Kiran Reddy invokes national security

Telangana: Ministerial panel concludes talks with stakeholders, Kiran Reddy invokes national security
New Delhi: The Group of Ministers set up by the central government to supervise the creation of Telangana concluded the process of discussions with various stakeholders. Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy cautioned that the creation of Telangana will be a threat to national security.

Here are the latest developments:

  1. The Centre's Group of Minister or GoM looking into the creation of Telangana completed the process of discussions with various stakeholders from the Telangana region and Seemandhra comprising coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema today.

  2. The Group of Ministers, headed by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, will meet again on November 21 and is likely to send the report to the Union Cabinet for consideration by month end, sources said.

  3. The Congress has indicated that a draft bill to create Telangana will be sent to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly this month. But the state Assembly's views will not be binding on the Centre, which hopes to bring the Bill in the Parliament's winter session beginning December 5.

  4. Seemandhra leaders wanted Hyderabad be declared a union territory on the lines of Delhi. Hyderabad is to be the common capital between the two states for 10 years.

  5. Ministers from Telangana, including S Jaipal Reddy, favoured the creation of Telangana without any conditions.

  6. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy warned the Centre that the move will threaten national security. "Naxalism, as the PM said, is the biggest threat. It will be a national security issue," Mr Reddy said today, after meeting the Group of Ministers. (Read)

  7. "It is not just a security concern for Hyderabad, Telangana or Andhra, but to the whole nation. Most of the Naxal leaders in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Odisha belong to Andhra Pradesh," Mr Reddy said.

  8. The Chief Minister noted that Hyderabad has been targeted by terrorists since 1992. "Hundreds, including police personnel, were killed by Naxals," he said.

  9. The Chief Minister, who has opposed his own Congress party's decision to create Telangana, was non-committal on whether he would resign on the issue.

  10. The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging Union Cabinet's decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to create Telangana.



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