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Members of Parliament urge Centre to act to end Telangana impasse | Cutting across party lines, Members of Parliament on Wednesday urged the UPA Government at the Centre to step in to end the impasse over the Telangana issue in Andhra
Pradesh. Expressing alarm and concern over reports of the deteriorating health
of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao, they appealed to
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to initiate moves to end the stalemate. Rao, whose
fast unto death over a demand for a separate Telangana State continues for the
eleventh day today, is admitted in the ICU of Hyderabad's Nizam Hospital. His
medical condition has been described as critical. Members of Parliament have appealed
Rao to end his fast. Meanwhile, TRS supporters have aggressively taken their campaign
forward for a separate State. Rao's family and supporters have also pleaded with
him to end his fast, but the TRS chief is determined and adamant that only signals
from the Center can make him change his decision. With the situation outside Osmania
University and the Andhra Pradesh Assembly particularly tense, security in Hyderabad
has been increased. On December 10, all the groups in favour of the Telangana
cause have called for a "Chalo Assembly" shutdown. Police have imposed Section
144 in the region. There are around 12,500 policemen deployed outside Osmania
University in anticipation of the unrest. To add to that, armed reserve police
have been summoned from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to work with local policemen
and security forces to prevent protesters from entering Hyderabad. At Osmania
University on Tuesday, the students defied a government order to vacate their
hostels. Professors also threatened to quit if the police were not withdrawn from
the campus. Students were baton charged by police on Monday. The university closed
down last week till the December 18 as a precaution against violence, but it remains
in many ways the epicenter of the Telangana protest. The Telangana issue is expected
to dominate proceedings in the state assembly today as well. Earlier on Tuesday,
the assembly was adjourned for the day following the raging of the Telangana issue.
The TRS wants Chief Minister K Rosiah to move a resolution on Telangana, so that
parties can vote on the matter. However, this is dangerous for the ruling Congress,
because this could expose its own divisions on the issue. As Andhra's government
struggles to maintain law and order, Chief Minister, K Rosaiah, has said it's
upto the Congress' central command in Delhi to decide the issue. The government
fears that reports of deteriorating health of TRS chief will incite violence in
the state that is already simmering over the Telangana movement. K Rosiah is expected
to visit New Delhi today to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi and seek her
decision on the issue. |
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