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Yes, you read it right. The world famous Disneyland will have its Indian installment in the pearl city Hyderabad, according to the latest reports. The Telangana Tourism department has already started the groundwork in this regard.

Apparently, the Disneyland Hyderabad will be set up with a whopping 25,000 crore in 300 acres of land on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Ancient buildings, European buildings, giant dragons, Donald Duck etc trademark features of Disneyland will be seen in the Hyderabad's edition too.

A delegation from Disneyland USA will meet with the Telangana government to oversee the possibilities and logistics in setting up the popular entertainment theme centre in Hyderabad. Disneyland has its extensions in global cities like Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. - 

Is the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy facing opposition to his schemes like ‘Indiramma Kalalu’ and ‘Bangaru Thalli’ from his own ministers? A day after some ministers criticized that the Chief Minister took unilateral decisions, rebel ministers met in the PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana’s residence. They even decided to complain to the High Command about the Chief Minister’s style of functioning. 


The internal differences in the Congress party came to the fore with the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme. Ministers were divided into pro and anti Kiran groups. Rebel ministers had met on Thursday morning at the residence of Botsa Satyanarayana. The Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha, ministers Jana Reddy, Vatti Vasanta Kumar and D L Ravindra Reddy attended the meeting. It is learnt that they mainly discussed about the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme in the one-hour meeting. It is learnt that the ministers expressed displeasure that the Chief Minister had not discussed the scheme in the cabinet and decided to complain against him to the High Command. It may be recalled that Botsa and DL had already criticized the Chief Minister indirectly, by stating that they knew nothing about the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme. 


It is learnt that the Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha expressed anguish that the Chief Minister had not said a single word to him about the ‘Indiramma Kalalu’ scheme. The dissidents are planning to meet the High Command after the Karnataka Assembly elections. Talk in political circles is that they planned to make the complaint to the High Command in such a way that it would take a definite decision on the Chief Minister. 


However, pro-CM ministers like Kondru Murali are claiming that the Chief Minister had discussed the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme with available ministers. He dismissed dissidence by saying lightly that it was natural that one or two ministers might defer.

Hyderabad, April 29: Decks are now clear for Kavita, daughter of the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao to contest to Lok Sabha from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency.

Kavita has been so far keeping off the TRS. She is heading the cultural wing Telangana Jagruti and confined herself to Bonalu and other activities. Now KCR reportedly cleared her entry into the party. 

Earlier reports said she was opting either Nizamabad Lok Sabha or Janagaon Assembly constituency. But it is now learnt that Kavita has decided to contest from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat. 

Though Kavita has been active in the Telangana movement, she never occupied a seat on the dais at TRS programmes. Kavita occupying a seat at the TRS formation day meeting has become a talking point. It also gave credence to reports about her political intentions.

Hyderabad, April 28: “Arrogance is like a political creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.”

At the halfway mark in the ongoing cricketing tamasha called Indian Premier League cricketers of all hues and cries are engaged in intense cricketing battle.

While the cricketers are sweating it out and staking their pride and prestige, with elections appearing anytime, the political stadium in Andhra Pradesh is witnessing contests of entirely different nature. Here the politician involved in a game of political musical chairs making the game of politics too intense and hot.

While the contest among the cricketers is very fascinating, that of politicians is becoming more irritating and causing apprehensions. It is entirely different matter as Sports are always entertaining, politics is forever exasperating.

In a rapidly moving game of political one-upmanship among them, each party has embarked on taking up different programmes like conducting padayatras to holding Samarabheri public meetings.

Even as CBN held a massive public meeting to mark culmination of his Vasthunna Mee kosam padayatra at Vishakhapatnam, TRS organized an impressive show of strength at Armoor to mark its 12th formation day. While, KCR made an attempt to roar with rhetoric, CBN tried to convince the people that he is indeed a changed man for the good.

While what shape the antics of Chandrababu would take is a matter to be known in future, KCR’s impressive show at Armoor turned out be a show of pure rhetoric belying the expectations that the meeting would present an action plan to advance Telangana movement. Instead, the meeting controlled by KCR’s rhetoric focused entirely on Political future of the Party.

When a good number TRS honchos small and big, young and old with mini and mega mindsets or no mindsets assembled in the guise of observing the 12th Formation day to work out a new action plan to re-launch Telangana movement at Armoor, it didn’t turn out to be either a clash of the titans or intellectual gymnastics but an “exercise to enable politics and disable the movement”. The rendezvous was only a move to prove that the KCR Parivar was fully in control of both the movement and the party. KCR was full of confidence, and the consensus reached among the party men to his rhetoric symbolized the vital paradigm shift of the party towards more politics and less action plan to strengthen the movement.

Since its existence in the last twelve years, TRS remained hanger-on either to the Congress or to the TDP. At the same time it was no mean achievement to have sustained the politics around the Telangana movement in the face of myriad political scenarios in the long and chequered journey. Amid this roller coaster political journey, KCR led his party with an unmatched alacrity and unparalleled political dexterity. TRS grew into a force to reckon with, yet it hasn’t fortified its position from being a fledgling toddler to an enthusiastic teenager raring to go.

Now the congregation of ‘pink panthers’ is all set to behave like adolescents with its supremo making it clear that the party might be contesting alone in the elections so as to prove its strength among all the parts of Telangana.

Having gained little from the Centre even after intensifying the agitation, KCR is now focusing entirely on the political battle. The election provides him with a huge opportunity to improve the TRS’s political muscle.

The TRS by announcing it will fight the polls alone is also indicating its self-confidence. But it is not as if the drive is not going to be bumpy for KCR. The flip side is that there could be a few Mahbubnagars along the way (the BJP defeated the TRS in a by-poll in Mahbubnagar in 2012) but that is a risk the TRS seems to be willing to take. The pitch that is likely to be sold to the voters in the region is that unless they vote in big numbers for the TRS, there will be no Telangana.

For more than a decade, KCR has been selling a dream to the people of Telangana. The sentiment is still strong in many parts of the region but it is also coupled with disenchantment not only with the Congress but also with the TRS. The party has used the emotion for statehood to gain politically, with KCR’s family now virtually in control of the TRS.

KCR, who asserted that the Telangana movement would continue until the separate state is achieved, has now set his eyes on winning 100 out of 119 assembly seats and 15 out of 17 Lok Sabha seats in the region. He tells the people that a resounding victory with these numbers would bestow a politically decisive position on the party.

Of course this target is like aiming for the sky. Would KCR’s party scale up to telephone wires is a conjecture of time.

The next election will be a make or a break for the TRS. If it wins anywhere close to one hundred seats in the assembly and 13-15 MPs, it will call the shots both in Hyderabad and in New Delhi. And KCR has a reputation of being a hard bargainer. But if it gets less than 60, it will be seen as empirical evidence that the Telangana sentiment is not widespread across the region as it is made out to be and will dilute the demand for statehood.

By seeking recourse for Parliamentary lobbying as the only way to achieve Telangana, KCR is all set to enable the politics and disable the Telangana and its movement which has always been an independent idea, a political aspiration, an emotional sentiment and a cultural curiosity.

The ball is now in the Telangana polling booths.

Visakhapatnam, April 27: Winding up his nearly seven-month long 'padyatra' (walkathon), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu Saturday promised to bring back Andhra Pradesh on the path of development and restore its glory.

Addressing a mammoth public meeting here Saturday night, Naidu made a slew of promises for all sections of people and assured that if voted to power in the next elections, he would fulfill all the promises.

The leader of opposition promised waiver of all loans of farmers to make agriculture profitable, protected drinking water to every village, jobs to all educated youth and monthly unemployment allowance in the event of an educated youth not getting employment.

Sharing his experiences of the padyatra, Naidu declared that the first file he would sign after swearing in as the chief minister would be to waive farm loans.

Describing electricity shortage as the biggest problem faced by the state, Naidu promised to put the sector back on rails. He pointed out how the sector was doing well and the state made all-round progress during his nine-year rule (1995-2004).

His other promises include a comprehensive insurance scheme for poor, improving the education sector, generation of jobs for youths, protection of women and girl child, closure of belt shops (unauthorized outlets of liquor shops), and waiver of interest on loans to women's self-help groups.

Naidu targeted Congress government for its inefficiency and YSR Congress party for the corruption. He blamed Congress party's misrule for the problems faced by people, while accusing late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy of looting public wealth while cheating people in the name of various welfare schemes.

He termed YSR party as a child of Congress, saying it was formed to protect the ill-gotten money. Naidu lamented that Hyderabad had become corruption capital of the country. He said ministers including the home minister were accused in YSR party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy's illegal assets case and Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was busy in shielding them.

Naidu ruled out any truck with communal parties and claimed that TDP was committed to protect secularism. He predicted that regional parties would sweep 2014 elections and that TDP would once again play a key role in national politics.

Thousands of people from various parts of the state turned up for what is being seen as the main opposition party's major show of strength ahead of the next year's elections to the state assembly and Lok Sabha.

Earlier, the former chief minister unveiled a 60-feet pylon to mark the culmination of 2,817 km long padyatra, the longest such padyatra undertaken by a politician in the state.

Naidu's wife Bhuvaneswari, son Lokesh, brother-in-law and popular Telugu actor N. Balakrishna and top leaders of the party were present on the occasion.

By undertaking the padyatra, the 64-year-old broke the record of his bitter rival Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who had covered nearly 1,500 km in 64 days in 2003. That 'padyatra' helped Rajasekhara Reddy to bring Congress party to power in 2004, ending Naidu's nine-year-long rule.

Hoping to repeat history, Naidu launched his padyatra on Oct 2 last year at Hindupur in Anantapur district. He covered 16 districts, interacting with various sections of people to know their problems and making promises if TDP regains power in 2014 elections.

Hyderabad, April 23: In a startling finds one gets doubts whether Natasimha Balakrishna who is nurturing political ambitions is his father NTR's backstabber. His father NTR who is popular for having utmost self respect and who is credited with invoking telugu pride with his party Telugu Desam, vowed not to step into the village of Nimmakuru, Krishna dist, the moment his co brother's son Venkataratnam demolished the party flag post and the adjacent hospital building, the day before his arrival as CM.

The moment he was informed, he was pained at the way his relatives started behaving, though he did lot of developments projects for the place he loves. Even Nimmakuru villagers remember NTR and rever him a lot. However now they are surprised that his son Balakrishna dined with the enemies of his father, by visiting Venkataratnam's son's house not once but thrice and even staying there. To the top of it he insulted his father, without garlanding his statue only because Jr.NTR unvieled his grand father NTR and grand mother Basavatarakam statue during his visit.

Many feel Harikrishna is furious over this and even Nimmakuru villagers who are surprised wrote letters to TDP office. It has to be seen what CBN and Balayya says about this.

Kurnool, April 23: One more party is taking shape to achieve separate Rayalaseema state.

Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy, president of the Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samiti announced that he would soon launch his party and prepare it for the elections.

Talking to the media here on Tuesday, he said all the Rayalaseema leaders were insane Tughluks.

Guntur, April 23: The love affair of Tadepalligudem MLA Eeli Nani’s daughter came before a court here. E. Ramya, daughter of ruling Congress party legislator Eeli Nani, approached the Legal Services Authority in Guntur, claiming that she was kept under "house arrest" by her father since she married her classmate Sandip in 2008 after a love affair. As per Ramya, her father "detained" her at home for four years and also tried to get her re-married after she married her lover against his wishes. The father dismissed the claims. She alleged that Nani also got Sandip "kidnapped" by police. Stating that she fears for his life, she urged the authorities to intervene in the matter. The girl cried before the judge, who ordered police to shift her to the women's protection centre. Ramya revealed that she was in love with Sandip, her classmate in an engineering college. They married secretly after a four-year-long affair. However, her father refused to accept the marriage and did not allow her to move out of the house. Meanwhile, talking to reporters in Tadepalligudem, Nani said he or his relatives would never interfere in the life of his daughter. He denied the allegation that he kept her under house arrest or got Sandip kidnapped. He also broke down before the media, saying no father should face what he was going through.

Hyderabad, April 16: The evidence of Jannat Hussain, IAS officer and former Principal Secretary of the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is going to be key in the disproportionate assets case against Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

It is learnt that the CBI mentioned the names of Sureedu, the former personal assistant of YSR and Jannath Hussain as key witnesses.

It is learnt that Jannath Hussain has stated to the CBI that Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, KVP Ramachandra Rao and Vijaya Sai Reddy used to participate in the official meetings held by YSR. It was also reported that Jagan and his assistant Sunil Reddy used to enter the Chief Minister’s camp office through the backdoor, avoiding the front, where always TV crew stand, recording the movements of leaders going in and coming out.

It is being said that Jannat Hussain and Sureedu stated that Nimmagadda Prasad, Penna Pratap Reddy, Srinivasa Reddy, Ramki owner Ayodhya Rami Reddy, Parthasarathy Reddy, Sajjala Diwakar Reddy and Sajjala Rama Krishna Reddy also used to meet Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy through the back door. This evidence would turn against Jagan as he has been claiming all along that he never went to the camp office and never intervened in the official matters.

It is also reported that Sureedu gave a statement before the CBI about how KVP played a key role in all the transactions. Sureedu reportedly said that any VIP wanting to meet YSR was routed only through KVP and even when someone bypassed him and went straight to YSR, he used to be sent back to KVP.

Hyderabad, April 3: There appears to be tiff between the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao and his party MP Vijaya Shanti over the Medak seat. 

KCR who was elected to Lok Sabha from the Mahabubnagar is unsure of getting good majority there in the next elections. Though he or any other TRS leader had any doubt over his victory there, they doubt if he would get impressive majority. KCR has been thinking of shifting to Medak, as he fears that if he doesn’t get impressive majority, opponents of Telangana would argue that the Telangana sentiment had died down. 

But Congress and TDP leaders are stating that KCR would be defeated if he contests from Mahabubnagar as he badly neglected the constituency. KCR rarely visited Mahabubnagar and had not attended to any of the people’s problems, they say. If he contests from there he would be surely defeated, Congress and TDP leaders are contending.

It is a fact that KCR has been looking for a safe constituency and eyed on Vijaya Shanti’s Medak. It is learnt that retired IAS officer K V Ramanachari is trying to join TRS and has asked for Medak seat. It is in this context that KCR requested Vijaya Shanti to shift to some other constituency and tried to convince her that it would be easy for her to get elected from anywhere, because of her charisma. Still, Vijaya Shanti reportedly refused to budge. 

She told her close confidents that she would not leave the Medak seat either for KCR or Ramanachary. “Why should I leave my seat for IAS or IPS officers who enjoy power and join the party just before elections? I will not leave it even for KCR” she is reported to have told her confidents. 

She also reportedly opposed the candidature of Ramanachary stating that the IAS and IPS officers were part of the government that oppressed the Telangana people and hence should not be encouraged. She also reportedly opposed to industrialists or realtors being given tickets, branding them as oppressors and exploiters of Telangana people. She stoutly told KCR that she would not budge for anyone as she has been toiling for Telangana sacrificing her film career and a comfortable life. 

On KCR contesting from Medak, she reportedly said that during last elections it was discussed in the party and senior leaders had decided that KCR should contest from Mahabubnagar and she from Medak. This time also it would be discussed in the party, she reportedly told her colleagues.

New Delhi, March 19:Taking a serious note of the alleged attempt to molest a foreign tourist at the Hotel Agra Mahal in the Taj city, Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi Tuesday ordered the suspension of its three-star rating.

The tourism ministry has also issued a showcause notice to the hotel asking it why its license should not be cancelled, the ministry said in a statement late Tuesday evening.

Expressing distress at the molestation and gang rape of Swis tourist, Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi Tuesday said foreign women tourists and children should be provided adequate security.

He said he has also spoken to union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and requested a system to ensure the safety and security of all tourists, especially women and children, be put in place, said a tourism ministry release.

Chiranjeevi has also started contacting chief ministers of various states, urging them to institute an adequate mechanism in their state, said the statement.

He has also assured people that due punishment will be meted out to the culprits.

Vijayawada, March 17: Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal today asked TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao as how his party would win 100 Assembly seats in the coming elections when he miserably failed to muster support of 30 MLAs for the ‘no-trust’ motion tabled in the Assembly.

Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Lagadapati ridiculed KCR for failing to gather even 30 MLAs to introduce his ‘no-trust’ motion in the Assembly against the Congress government. He said the Congress high command would strive to retain United Andhra Pradesh. He said the Congress was ready to allow other parties to merge into the Congress if they were prepared to adhere to the party ideals. 

Predicting that the Telangana separatists would not win 100 MLA seats in the coming elections, Lagadapati warned that the government would show its power if separatists attempted to create disturbances in the name of ‘Sadak Bandh’.

Sanathnagar MLA Marri Sashidhar Reddy, who remained absent on the day the government faced ‘no-trust’ motion, said he didn’t attend the House as the government had full strength to win against ‘no-trust’ motion. He said he was in Delhi during ‘no-trust’ motion and the same was informed to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy through a letter. He said the Chief Minister and PCC Chief Botcha Satyanrayana would initiate action against the party legislators, who defied the party ‘Whip’ during the voting on ‘no trust’ motion.

Hyderabad, Mar 4: Film actress and MP Jaya Prada announced her decision to contest from Rajahmundry. She said she would contest to Lok Sabha from there.

Though she has not said from which party she would contest, it is being presumed that she would be the YSR Congress party's candidate as she was all praise for the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

Stating that she was not against Telangana, she said she was however an integrationist. 

Jaya Prada has affirmed that it was due to the welfare schemes undertaken by late YSR that the state had developed. Though she said she liked the programmes of YSR very much, she did not say from which party she would contest. She said would make that announcement in Rajahmundry. She lamented that there was no Telugu girls on the Tollywood screen now. 

It may be recalled that Jaya Prada was an MP of the TDP when Chandra Babu Naidu was the Chief Minister. She also served as the Telugu Mahila chief. However, she left TDP and the state after she allegedly developed differences with Naidu. She joined the Samajwadi Party and was elected to Lok Sabha from that party. Recently he and her mentor Amar Singh were expelled from the SP after the latter developed differences with the SP Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. Though Amar Singh launched a party, it could not create any impact in the last elections.

Hyderabad, Jan 28: Condemning the statements of Union Ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad and Susheel Kumar Shinde on Telangana issue, the MPs from the Telangana region have decided to tender resignations from the Lok Sabha as well as to the primary membership of the party on the evening of January 29 in the Speaker’s format.

Speaking to the media after a prolonged meeting at Peddapally MP G Vivek’s residence here on Monday, Bhongir MP Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy and Vivek said they would tender resignations to the Lok Sabha and party on Tuesday at CWC former member Dr K Keshava Rao’s residence. They exuded confidence that the ministers from Telangana region too would follow suit.

Rajagopal Reddy said they were making tireless efforts for the last three years protecting the interests of the party in the region. But the adamant Seemandhra Congress leaders were systematically sabotaging formation of separate Telangana State by intense lobbying and resorting to blackmailing tactics at New Delhi resulting in Ghulam Nabi’s statement.

Faulting Ghulam’s statement ridiculing the people of the Telangana region, Rajagopal Reddy said even God ‘Brahma’ would not save the interests of the Congress in the region if the high command delayed the decision on Telangana further.

CWC former member Dr K Keshav Rao said they were being deceived by the party high command. He said the high command’s statements were creating doubts among the people of Telangana. He said the Congress MPs of the region would not believe the party high command further unless it announced separate Telangana State immediately. He also said achievement of Telangana State was possible within a week only if all the Congress leaders, including ministers, legislators and DCC presidents worked together. "I'm disappointed with the delay, it is hard to swallow this. People have lost faith. I feel the party is trying to buy time," Keshav Rao added.

Nizamabad MP Madhu Yashki Goud has made it clear that they would use their position as a weapon to achieve separate Telangana State. Creation of separate Telangana State was getting delayed only because of lack of cooperation between the ministers and MLAs. He asked the Telangana protagonists to identify the Telangana betrayers and not to doubt about sincerity of the Telangana Congress MPs. He also called upon the T protagonists to obstruct the efforts of anti-Telangana forces and the Seemandhra leaders.

Alleging that the Samaikyandhra movement was being run by the YSRCP coverts, Yashki said Seemandhra Congress leaders joined the movement only to help strengthen the YSRCP and their sons’ future in that party. Yashki warned the Seemandhra leaders not to make provocative statements lest the security of the Seemandhra people settled in Telangana region would be harmed. He also advised the Seemandhra Congress leaders to banish Rajya Sabha member KVP Ramachandra Rao, who engineered the Samaikyandhra movement for his own interests. He also alleged that Dr KVP was organizing “wine and dinner” politics in Delhi to obstruct creation of Telangana State.

Stating that AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi and AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi were not against creation of separate Telangana State, Yashki said the Seemandhra leaders were stalling Telangana State with the help of Governor and Intelligence Bureau. He asked Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy to speak on Telangana as Seemandhra’s Pallam Raju was speaking boldly in favor of united Andhra Pradesh.

The union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde last month said that a decision on Telangana would be made within a month. And finally when the deadline came, the same old dialogue came out before the press-talks were on and further time would be needed. It looked like except Congress party all parties were in support of statehood for Telangana. So, why was Congress party dilly dallying on Telangana.

The sources said that Sonia Gandhi apparently questioned as to how many seats Congress leaders would win in Telangana region if a state is carved out and a similar question was reportedly put forth before leaders of Seemandhra region. The sources even said that both the leaders from Telangana said Congress would get maximum seats if state is bifurcated whereas leaders from Seemandhra apparently said Congress would not get any seats if state is bifurcated. This answer reportedly confused Congress and therefore was unable to come to decision, which reportedly affected the consensus policy of the centre. Congress should keep aside votes' policy and look at the welfare of the people and life of the party in the long run, said observers. Anyway, fingers crossed to see what Congress would finally spell out.

Hyderabad: Former minister Gade Venkat Reddy reiterated that any move to divide Andhra Pradesh would be opposed tooth and nail.Talking to reporters, Venkat Reddy said that the aim of Seemandhra leaders was to keep the state united and all efforts would be made to ensure the same. He ridiculed the claims being made by some leaders that Telangana would be a reality by January 28. The formation of Telangana was still a distant dream and very far from reality, he said.
Venkat Reddy accused the Telangana leaders of misleading the people of the region by making them chase the mirage of Telangana. He said that the Congress High Command did not take any decision on the statehood issue as being claimed by some leaders.

Vijayawada (AP): Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal expressed his confidence that there would not be any decision on the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh by the Union Government.
He told reporters here today that vested interests have been spreading rumours that the union government has decided to announce its decision on bifurcation on January 28 or a little later.
He asked the people of coastal and Rayalaseema districts not to be afraid of it and quoted the statement of Prime Minister statement that any decision on bifurcation would be taken only with the consent of all parties.
He said that supporters of united Andhra Pradesh would release CDs of movie actor-turned-former chief N T Rama Rao’s (NTR) songs in which he sang songs supporting united Andhra Pradesh.
He also said that if K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR) of the Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) contest elections either from Secunderabad or Hyderabad parliament constituencies in the coming elections, he would lose his deposit.

Hyderabad, Jan 18: TRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao here on Friday made it clear that separate Telangana State would be carved out in spite of any number of hurdles created by the fastidious Seemandhra leaders. 

Participating in the “Smruti deeksha” (remembering sacrifices of Telangana youth for separate State) organized by the Telangana Electricity Employees’ Unions JAC in the Mint Compound here, the TRS leader said they would happily take Telangana State this year, otherwise “We will wrest it in 2014. He also made it clear once again that no force on the earth could stop Telangana State tomorrow.  

The TRS leader said that minister Ganta Srinivas Rao was enacting dramas only for the sake of chief minister post in the forthcoming separate Andhra State. Towards this end, he was making Herculean efforts to earn goodwill of the people of the Seemandhra region, he added. 

Asserting that there was no movement at all for the united Andhra Pradesh in the Seemandhra region, Harish Rao said there would have been sacrifices by the Seemandhra people if really any movement was there. Advising the Seemandhra leaders to discuss the so-called “water issue” across the table amicably if they have any fears, the TRS leader warned that they would not keep quiet if the Seemandhra leaders continue to put spokes in the formation of Telangana State.

Hyderabad, Jan 16: State Ministers Danam Nagender and Mukhesh Goud today said the Congress High Command should also consult them before taking a decision on the State division. 

Speaking to media persons, they said there were people from all the States living in Greater Hyderabad. They said they would demand for protection of their rights. They said Hyderabad should be made a separate state. They said they already putforth their demand before the Congress high command.  

Referring to the charge that Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy was behind the stand they had taken, the duo said it was a meaningless charge. Stating that along with the Chief Minister they were also elected MLAs for four terms, they asserted that there was no need for any one to teach them politics.