Telangana issue to rock Assembly

By C R Gowri Shanker Hyderabad, March 8, 2013: The Telangana issue is likely to reverberate in the Assembly during the Budget Session from March 13. The TRS has decided to rake up the issue and demand that the state government move a resolution and ask the Centre to pass a Bill in Parliament without further delay. Apart from the TRS, the BJP, CPI and the Telangana Nagara Samiti headed by Dr Nagam Janardhan Reddy also plan to protest in the Assembly for Telangana and other issues. “Needless to say, Telangana will be top on the agenda during the Budget Session of the Assembly. Severe power cuts in Telangana, water crisis, twin bomb blasts and other issues will also be raised,” Mr Etela Rajender, TRS Floor leader in the Assembly told this newspaper here on Friday. He added, “Congress cheated Telangana people. The situation has come to such a pass that the issue is compared with Dosa...apadam...tea, etc. which is insulting to Telangana people.” T-MLAs are also planning to disrupt Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan’s inaugural address to the joint session of the legislature on March 13. The TJAC has given a call for a Sadak Bandh on the Hyderabad-Bengaluru highway on March 21.