By TCN Staff Correspondent,
Hyderabad: Congress leaders from Telangana have started turning against the party’s line favoring the constitution of states reorganization commission (SRC) and have threatened to quit the party as well as their elected posts, if any such type of development take place. The Telangana leaders were not pleased by the remarks made by the congress spokes person Rashid Alvi and its general secretary Dig Vijay Singh on the statehood issue.
It all started when congress spokes person Rashid Alvi told the journalists while replying to questions about Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s proposal to divide the state into four small units. He said congress party favored the setting up of SRC look into such demands, when asked whether Telangana is an exception, he said “It is not an exception, I am talking about the policy of the whole country, and not about a region.
Alvi further said congress does not decide keeping in mind a region or the state but the whole country. Later it was reiterated by the party general secretary Digvijay Singh in Bhopal that a second SRC is party’s line.
Describing the proposal meaningless as it ran contrary to the announcement by union home minister P.Chidambaram on December 9, 2009, congress M.P from Nalgonda said that union minister S.Jaipal Reddy and all the ministers in the state cabinet from Telangana, will resign if the government announced SRC.
Telangana Rashtriya Samithi warned that party will create a storm if the center went ahead with the proposal to constitute state reorganization commission or regional councils to meet the demand of separate Telangana state. TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao demanded introduction of a bill on statehood in the winter session of the parliament.
He further said that constituting the SRC will only delay the cause of the Telangana. The TRS president said that party politburo had decided to intensify the agitation if the central government takes any decision to sidetrack the demand of the statehood; he said congress should drop that proposal or else face the ire of the people.