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Telangana ministers want 'time-bound' assurance from Centre over statehood issue | Notwithstanding an assurance from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the Centre would soon take a firm decision on the Telangana statehood issue, ministers belonging to the Telangana region have refuted suggestions that they will withdraw their resignations. They have asked the UPA
Government at the Centre to come out with a definite time frame for the formation
of the Telangana state. Earlier, the ministers had sent a common resignation letter
to Congress President Sonia Gandhi in which they pressed for Telangana statehood.
Mukherjee had on Sunday asked the Andhra Pradesh ministers to withdraw their
resignations,
saying the Central Government would soon come announce some good news on the
Telangana
issue. A delegation of thirteen ministers headed by State Information and Tourism
Minister Geeta Reddy had met Mukherjee on Sunday to discuss the Centre's delay
in announcing the process for the formation of the Telangana state. Meanwhile,
K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), the chief of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has
formed the Telangana Joint Action Committee with the help of politicians and
students
supporting the Telangana cause. KCR has claimed that he will call for an indefinite
shutdown from Tuesday over the Telangana issue in the region, if the Central
Government
does not commit to a schedule for the formation of the new state that it had approved
earlier this month. |
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