Andhra Pradesh heading towards president’s rule?
December 24th, 2009 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS ( 4 comments )
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Thursday appeared to be heading towards president’s rule as the en mass resignations of legislators from the Telangana region triggered a constitutional crisis.
The centre is also likely to appoint a new governor before imposing president’s rule. Governor N.D. Tiwari may be replaced in view of his poor health, official sources said, adding that former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy’s name was doing the rounds.
The latest statement by the centre on the issue of a separate Telangana state triggered a constitutional crisis as legislators irrespective of party lines decided to quit.
The majority of the 119 legislators from the 294-member assembly in the region have decided to submit their resignation. They include 50 legislators of the ruling Congress party. The pressure is also mounting on 13 ministers to quit.
Political observers said these resignations, if accepted by Speaker Kirankumar Reddy, will reduce the Rosaiah government to a minority.
Congress, which retained power in the elections early this year, has 157 members in the assembly.
Telangana legislators decided to quit to protest the centre’s u-turn on the issue even as 140 legislators from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions started withdrawing their resignations.
The legislators from the two regions had submitted their resignations to the speaker after the Dec 9 announcement by the centre to initiate the process for a separate Telangana state, which comprises 10 districts, including Hyderabad.
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December 24th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Thanks Brothers. Now we can weed out the terrorist TRS organization and Kalvakuntala. Let us not leave Chata basket Niadu (CBN) alone he has betrayed the telugu land in several ways. He killed NTR and now he supported the terrorists TRS for seperation much against the great ideals of Anna NTR.
December 24th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
That is the best option to save the Telugu land from terrorist Organzations as TRS that are poisoning the Telugu land.
It is a known fact now that this political party has alliance with Mujjahiddin and the Sikh Seperatists.
Manmohan singh and Sonia are all in this act of terrorism support.
Telangana was testing waters for both of them to have a seperate sikh land and Kashmir carved out of India.
It was always the in the mind of the Europians to break India and they were sucessfull thorugh the marraige of Sonia to Rajiv and now the destruction and breakup of India.
December 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) which got 10 in the last elections was dismally disapproved by the Telanaga people. So basically the Telanga people do not want to seperate.
Then that makes the current violence, killings perpitrated by KCR as terrorist activity akin with Mujahiddin seperation of Kashmir, of Sikhs demand for seperate land.
Telugu brothers where evere you are please do not support the terrorist organization TRS anymore.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Let us face it….. this is not about development, or “self respect” of people from Telangana.It is all about KCR’s and his cronies trying to get power and millions of rupees, through this “movement”. It is a matter of sorrow and shame there are others who support this.
If a separate Telangana is allowed, there will be calls for smaller states everywhere in the country, and the map of India will look like, what it was prior to 1947.
That being said, why not give back the princes and nawabs and zamindars their territories as they existed before 1947?