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Congress floats SRC balloon on Telangana
TNN | Nov 10, 2011, 04.59AM IST
HYDERABAD: Taken aback by the reported moves of Uttar Pradesh chief
minister Mayawati to divide the state into four parts while an
agitation for a separate state is raging in Andhra Pradesh, the
Congress high command on Wednesday floated the idea of the
constitution of a second States Reorganization Commission (SRC) to
look into all such demands.
In Bhopal, Digvijay Singh, AICC general secretary incharge of UP, said
that Congress' stand on demands for smaller states has always been
clear. "A second SRC alone can address such issues," he said while
commenting on Mayawati's resolution in the UP assembly in support of
the division of that state into smaller ones in the winter session.
Digvijay also confirmed that the UP CM has written to the Centre on
the issue.
In New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi told the media that
the grand old party is for setting up of a commission to address the
demand for smaller states. More importantly, from AP's point of view,
the spokesperson said in reply to a question that such acommission
will also look into the demand for Telangana as well.
While the statements by these two party functionaries cannot be as yet
attributed as the official stance of the Congress sans an announcement
to that effect, AICC sources said the general idea was to gauge the
response to the idea of a second SRC to raging demands like Telangana
and new ones put forth by Mayawati. "The initial idea was to set up a
Telangana regional council.But with Mayawati breathing down our back
ahead of the assembly elections in UP next year with the demand for
the splitting up of that state into smaller ones, a second SRC appears
to be the solution to address all such demands which are sure to
increase in the wake of the Telangana agitation and the UP CM's move,"
said the sources.
But in Hyderabad, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which is
spearheading the separate state agitation, made it clear that the
constitution of a second SRC as an answer to creation of Telangana
will not be acceptable to the people of the region.
"If the Congress goes ahead with such a move, we will ensure that it
is wiped out from the political arena in the region for good," said
TRS legislature party floor leader Etala Rajender. T Harish Rao,
another leader, said this would amount to cheating and that his party
would oppose it tooth and nail and ensure that the Congress pays a
heavy price for yet another betrayal of the people of the region. The
reported second SRC move of the Congress is slated to be discussed at
the TRS Politburo on Thursday.
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