Give Telangana now, KCR tells Centre

Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wedmnesday warned the Centre that if, even after Srikrishna committee submits its report, it does not start the process of the formation of the Telangana state, the people of the region will lose faith in parliamentary democracy.

"Stand by your word, which you had given in the Parliament. Give us our state. We want to live our own lives. That is what Telangana wants", Chandrasekhar Rao said at the meeting of the state executive of Telangana Rashtra Samiti.

The emergency meeting was held in Hyderabad to chalk out the future course of action as the Srikrisna committee was getting ready to submit its report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi.

The five member panel held its last meeting in Delhi this evening to give final touches to its 600 page report. It was likely to submit its report either on Thursday or latest by December 31 evening.

What created a flutter among the Telangana was the sudden meeting of the Prime Minister with senior cabinet colleagues Pranab Mukherji, A K Antony and P Chidambaram to discuss the Telangana situation.

KCR said that if the Centre fails to keep its promise on Telangana state, then all the MPs and MLAs of the region, belonging to all the parties should immediately resign.

"When the Congress MPs went on indefinite fast two days ago, the state government was forced to withdraw all the cases. Similarly if they threaten to resign to bring the Telangana bill in the Parliament, government will come down immediately", he said.

He urged all the political leaders of Telangana region to be ready to make any sacrifice for the sake of Telangana.

Strongly condemning the deployment of paramilitary forces in the state, KCR said that it was highly provocative. "No body in Telangana will be afraid of police battalion. We will counter the police battalion with the political battalion", he said.

He wanted to know the reason for this deployment when nothing untoward happened in Telangana region, when there was no provocation from any political party and when no body was attacked.

"We have made it clear that our protest will be democratic and peaceful. But if you deploy forces and bind over people, then you will become the trouble maker", KCR told the government.