<p>Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s recent statement that political parties from Andhra Pradesh will be solely responsible for a final take on Telangana is all set to impact the meeting of eight state political outfits in New Delhi on January 6.<br /><br />Close on the heels of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deciding to boycott the meeting, other outfits such as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Praja Rajyam Party are also contemplating boycotting the meeting on the Srikrishna Committee report. <br /><br />Parties which will attend the meeting––the Communist Party of India, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and the Lok Satta Party––are only minor players in the state. <br />The TDP, the main Opposition party, seems to have second thoughts over sending its delegation after its MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy threatened to quit if the party does not give a clear signal for Telangana this time. <br /><br />Pocharam has announced his intention to join the TRS.<br /><br />This has precipitated a crisis in the party with more leaders from the region being in a similar dilemma whether to succumb to the pressure from cadres to quit the party or to observe restraint, in case if the Srikrishna Committee report turned out to be against a separate Telangana. <br /><br />Advice<br /><br />According to sources, senior Telangana leaders Kadiam Srihari and Errabelli Dayakar Rao have advised party president N Chandrababu Naidu to send only non-Telangana representatives to the meeting, if he cannot boycott it. <br /><br />Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has also summoned Congress MPs from the region to Delhi on Wednesday following their statement that nothing short of Telangana would be acceptable to them.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Nadendla Manohar, Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly, has said curbs will be imposed on the movement of both media and non-legislators on the Assembly building premises and MLA hostels.<br /><br />MLA hostels in Hyderabad had become a venue for two political hunger fasts by Naidu and Telangana Congress MPs, embarrassing the government. <br /><br />The government has handed over the external security of the assembly and MLA hostels to the Border Security Force.</p>.<p>Former Naxal joins TRS<br /><br />Sambashivudu, a former CPI (Maoist) leader, has joined the TRS, reports DHNS from Hyderabad. Welcoming the former Naxalite, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao hailed left-wing extremists as crusaders for justice and said if a separate state of Telangana is formed, his party would implement a “Maoist agenda” to ensure basic amenities for the poor. </p>
<p>Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s recent statement that political parties from Andhra Pradesh will be solely responsible for a final take on Telangana is all set to impact the meeting of eight state political outfits in New Delhi on January 6.<br /><br />Close on the heels of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deciding to boycott the meeting, other outfits such as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Praja Rajyam Party are also contemplating boycotting the meeting on the Srikrishna Committee report. <br /><br />Parties which will attend the meeting––the Communist Party of India, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and the Lok Satta Party––are only minor players in the state. <br />The TDP, the main Opposition party, seems to have second thoughts over sending its delegation after its MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy threatened to quit if the party does not give a clear signal for Telangana this time. <br /><br />Pocharam has announced his intention to join the TRS.<br /><br />This has precipitated a crisis in the party with more leaders from the region being in a similar dilemma whether to succumb to the pressure from cadres to quit the party or to observe restraint, in case if the Srikrishna Committee report turned out to be against a separate Telangana. <br /><br />Advice<br /><br />According to sources, senior Telangana leaders Kadiam Srihari and Errabelli Dayakar Rao have advised party president N Chandrababu Naidu to send only non-Telangana representatives to the meeting, if he cannot boycott it. <br /><br />Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has also summoned Congress MPs from the region to Delhi on Wednesday following their statement that nothing short of Telangana would be acceptable to them.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Nadendla Manohar, Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly, has said curbs will be imposed on the movement of both media and non-legislators on the Assembly building premises and MLA hostels.<br /><br />MLA hostels in Hyderabad had become a venue for two political hunger fasts by Naidu and Telangana Congress MPs, embarrassing the government. <br /><br />The government has handed over the external security of the assembly and MLA hostels to the Border Security Force.</p>.<p>Former Naxal joins TRS<br /><br />Sambashivudu, a former CPI (Maoist) leader, has joined the TRS, reports DHNS from Hyderabad. Welcoming the former Naxalite, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao hailed left-wing extremists as crusaders for justice and said if a separate state of Telangana is formed, his party would implement a “Maoist agenda” to ensure basic amenities for the poor. </p>
