No Telangana resolution in Assembly: Kiran

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today ruled out passing a resolution in the Assembly seeking the creation of a separate Telangana and asserted that no one could force the Centre to take a decision on the bifurcation of the state.

Political parties, except one or two, are strongly divided along regional lines. So naturally any resolution on the statehood issue will be defeated in the House. He had told the Telangana Rashtra Samiti MLAs clearly that any resolution on Telangana (in the Assembly) can be contrary to their liking, he said to news persons during an informal chat after the House was adjourned for the day.

Questioned about the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement (on December 9, 2009) that the process for the creation of Telangana would be initiated after a resolution in the Assembly, Kiran remarked: "Indira Gandhi also made a statement in Parliament in 1969-70 (on Telangana).

Jawaharlal Nehru came here to find a solution but the Telangana issue remained unresolved for the last 50 years. It was a sensitive issue and no one could force the Centre to take a decision", he said.

The Government in Delhi is competent to take a decision on this, he said and has to protect the interests of everyone.

The CM, however, hoped the Centre would come out with a decision soon on the vexatious statehood issue. He also recalled that the agitation for a separate Telangana state was more intense in 1969. He was in school at that time. Earlier, TRS members disrupted the Assembly proceedings on the first day of the monsoon session demanding a resolution seeking creation of Telangana state.

The House was adjourned for the day without transacting any business as members of other Opposition parties like the YSR Congress, TDP and BJP, too, raised different issues. As two adjournments did not bring order to the House, Speaker Nadendla Manohar adjourned it for the day.

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