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All-party meet gives Govt. a breather

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD June 25. An all-party meeting convened on Wednesday by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti to discuss about the Government's failure to implement the recommendations made by the House Committee on GO 610 in its interim report has decided to give some more time to the Government before embarking upon direct action.

With the House panel chairman, R Prakash Reddy, summoning the panel meeting on June 30, representatives of all Opposition parties, barring the BJP, who attended the meeting decided not to take any hasty steps and wait for the Government's response on the matter. The all-party meeting convened to chalk out an action plan to press the Government to implement the recommendations of the House panel was attended among others by the PCC president, M Satyanarayana Rao, the CPI State secretary, S Sudhakara Reddy, the CPI(M) leader, M Venkata Narasimha Reddy, and the MIM floor leader, Asaduddin Owaisi. The BJP, according to the political parties' leaders, did not attend the meeting for obvious reasons.

Briefing reporters about the proceedings later, the TRS president, K Chandrasekhar Rao, said the meeting resolved to demand that the Government implement the recommendations without any delay. The meeting unanimously decided to give one more opportunity to the House panel chairman to pressure the Government to implement the recommendations made in the interim report.

If the Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu, had minimum respect for democratic procedures, he should immediately respond to the unanimous request being made by all Opposition parties. If the Chief Minister failed to respond, the parties knew how to get their demand conceded, he said.

The political parties' leaders, however, refused to comment when asked whether the parties would launch a joint agitation to press the Government to concede their demand. "There is unanimity among all parties over the implementation of the House panel's recommendations. The matter of taking up agitation would arise only if the Government did not respond to our demand,'' they said.

According to the TRS president, the meeting was only a beginning and the parties' would meet again soon if the Government failed to respond positively to their demand.

Meanwhile, the BJP general secretary, K. Laxman, in a press release refuted the allegations that the BJP did not participate in the meeting due to the pressure from the ruling TDP. The BJP had its own ways of pressuring the Government and it need not take support of parties like the TRS for the purpose, he said.

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