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Members of India's opposition parties on Wednesday staged raucous protests against skyrocketing inflation, forcing parliament to adjourn. Members of both houses of parliament lambasted the ruling Congress party over soaring prices of food and essential commodities that have leapt on lower agricultural output following the worst monsoon in nearly four decades. "Either the price rises must stop or the government must go," Mulayam Singh Yadav of the left-wing Samajwadi Party told reporters. "We... Read Full Story
Hours after actor-politician Chiranjeevi resigned as an MLA from the Andhra Assembly, Chief Minister K Rosaiah held a press conference at which he said, “Government of India has to show the way out…It is not in my hands.”
Since last week, Andhra has been split wide open about the central government’s decision to sanction a new state of Telangana. Political parties in Andhra, like Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) and Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had expressed their... Read Full Story
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 11:55 am
NEW DELHI: Terming the protests by legislators and MPs against the proposed creation of Telangana as only a "leaders’ movement", a Congress MP said Thursday that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was willing to merge with the Congress once the new state is formed.
"TRS is willing to merge with Congress once Telangana is formed," Madhu Goud Yaskhi, Congress MP from Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh, told .
Yaskhi said he... Read Full Story
Hyderabad: With a vow to fight for the united Andhra Pradesh and support for all the leaders who are protesting hard for the same, Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi today resigned from the state assembly as an MLA.
Announcing about his resignation at a crowed press conference at the PRP headquarters he said, “In deference to the wishes of majority of the people, the PRP will henceforth stand for a unified Andhra Pradesh. We shall bring required pressure on powers that be to ensure that... Read Full Story
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 6:36 am
A week after the Central government announced its decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) chief Chiranjeevi announced his resignation from Andhra assembly.
PRP has a total of 18 MLAs of which the majority is from non-Telangana regions.
Chiranjeevi made the announcement in favour of a united Andhra Pradesh today, but was threatened with a split within the PRP.
Sixteen PRP MLAs belonging to... Read Full Story
P. Sabitha Indra Reddy has objected to the charge levelled against her by Telugu Desam legislators that she was acting as Home Minister of Telangana region and trying to suppress the students’ agitation in universities in Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. She said she was Home Minister for the entire State and not merely for Telangana and, as such, none must misinterpret the steps taken by her as they were aimed at overall maintenance of law and order in the entire State. The TDP had alleged... Read Full Story
Vijayawada: Sticking to his guns on united Andhra, Lagadapati Rajagopal, MP, on Wednesday reiterated that he would quit public life as and when separate Telangana is formed. The MP is organising a public meeting at the PWD grounds in Vijayawada on Dec 18 for which he claimed over a lakh people would attend.
“I am not agitating for personal gains. I have undertaken the fast for the sake of the people who want united Andhra,” he told reporters here on the second day of his fastunto... Read Full Story
After being virtually bundled out of the state capital, Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal on Tuesday vowed to fight back and enter Telangana by undertaking a padayatra soon. Making his stand clear, Rajagopal continued his indefinite fast at the Swarjya Maidan here on Tuesday demanding the Centre to come out with a clear statement on separate Telangana.
Accompanied by hundreds of followers, Rajagopal reached the maidan also known as PWD grounds early in the day and declared that he was... Read Full Story
The political deadlock in Andhra Pradesh over the proposed division of the state and the protests in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions continued for the sixth day Wednesday.
The "fast unto death" by Congress MP in Vijayawada L. Rajagopal and Congress legislator Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy in Kadapa entered the second day.
The indefinite hunger strike by Teludu Desam Party (TDP) legislators in Vijayawada and Anantapur also entered the fourth day.
Rallies, demonstrations, road and... Read Full Story
The first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday after New Delhi’s midnight announcement on Telangana reportedly saw chief minister K Rosaiah asking the ministers to stop going public with divisive calls as long as they remained part of the government.By invoking the high command’s name, the chief minister succeeded in containing ministers of all the three regions from airing views on the controversy surrounding the Union home minister’s announcement. All the 33 ministers attended the Cabinet meeting... Read Full Story
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