90-minute meeting also unable to decide on partial revocation of AFSPA
A week before Parliament convenes for the winter session, the Congress Core Group met here on Monday to discuss the issue of Telangana and debate revocation of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
But the top leaders who met at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence here for 90 minutes were unable to come to any conclusion on both, party sources said.
With Dr. Singh, who returned from the SAARC summit in Male on Saturday, flying out again on Thursday to Bali for the ASEAN summit, from where he will be back on November 20, the sources said, it looked as both issues may take a while longer to be resolved.
Apart from the Prime Minister, the Core Group includes Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, A.K. Antony and P. Chidambaram, and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her political secretary Ahmed Patel. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is the Congress general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh, also participated.
Monday's meeting comes against the backdrop of statements made by the Prime Minister on both Telangana and the AFSPA. If his remarks on the first indicated that the government was in no hurry to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, he sounded neutral on the AFSPA, over which the Home Ministry and the Defence Ministry have differences. The Home Ministry is more in sync with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has been pressing for the revocation of the Act from parts of the State.
On Saturday, the Prime Minister, in response to a question from journalists while returning from Male, said: “Telangana is a complicated matter and we are trying to evolve a consensus where all shades of public opinion would agree that what is being done is in the interests of each and everyone. We cannot solve the problem by agreeing to Telangana while there is disquiet and unrest in other regions of Andhra Pradesh...”
The Core Group meeting was also held in the wake of Mr. Abdullah's meeting Dr. Singh and Mr. Chidambaram on Monday to press his case. Mr. Abdullah met Mr. Antony on Sunday.
On Saturday, asked for his views on the demand for lifting the AFSPA from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Singh said: “I think this is very much a function of the security situation. Therefore, all those who are in charge of security, and those who are dealing with the political processes, they have to sit back and objectively review the situation. I do not think that the process has been completed.”
Keywords: Telangana crisis, AFSPA issue
Cong people core committee where not discussion anything related to Telangana. The did not document any thing yet.
They just discus what curry they made that day and how tasty it was. When they come out they say Telangana is a complex issue.
The govt. is not inefficient in taking a decision on both telangana and AFPSA but they want to exploit this situations at their best for 2014 elections . Though it is not a big matter for GOI to make a decision for making a separate state or not and the same with AFPSA after having intelligence reports them. its a false notion to say that govt. cant take a decision on the mega problems of india
indeciveness and inefficiency is the chararcter of congress. Many times it bank on the strategy of no-decision.For them no-decision itself is a panacea.As all we know,with the time lapsing, >many unrests or disquiets become silent and wane away. But this technique has failed many a times and telangana is classic example.Time and again it resurfaced and swept in different forms. Congress should pull its stock and should take the opinion of the others in getting a amicable solution of telangana-which is inevitable. And the only solution that is logical and democratic and constitutional is that "seperation or demerger of telangana with hyderabad as its capital after the transition period of 5 years as united or combined capital" One should realise that the disquiet or discomfiture of SA is just a manipulated movement which has no popular support which is almost silent now.Also not a single person has given the life for the cause of united andhra.It is formed and spread by the SA caps.
The Government should act fast or else people aspiring for new state may get on the wrong side and join hands with Maoism,Ironically, the rise of Maoism is itself a product of the failed T-agitation in 1969 Soon after the 1969 movement was crushed, many disgruntled and heartbroken students in Hyderabad, Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad from Osmania and Kakatiya Universities joined the Naxal ranks,so this time too it wont change.T-agitation is not new its been there for 50 years ,It is not anti India movement people are just asking for there share and Self respect back,its time for other people to realize the ground reality and support the cause,DONT SEE THE CAUSE THROUGH YOUR EYES ,SEE IT WITH HEART YOU FEEL THE PAIN AND ANGUISH OF TELANGANA PEOPLE
We cannot solve the problem by agreeing to Telangana while there is disquiet in other regions of Andhra Pradesh.True. How long should this disquiet and unrest prevail in Telangana? Should its people be denied a ray of light at the end of the dark tunnel? This unrest in Telangana is genuine as it springs from people's aspiration which has manifested itself time and again and in more than one modes.In the Andhra region,it is being sponsered by the vested interests.It would not be far from truth,if one is to say that the turmoil supposed to prevail in that part is a myth created and kept in circulation by the media.The UPA may keep the issue on the backburner for the present.How will it confront armageddon in 2014?
This is good news as they vacillate more the suffering of silent majority from ill effects of ill conceived voilent movement with bullying tactics will fade as students education is suffering.
This is a government which does not work. The Telengana muddle is going on since December 2009 and till now the Congress cannot decide.They have no guts to decide either way as they will definitely lose power in A.P.What the Congress can not understand is that further vacillation may put it out of power now itself.The people of Hyderabad are sick and tired of this indecision. Children have missed a lot of school/college, business has suffered, the daily laborer has been made to starve and may even join the Maoists and life in the twin cities is unbearable. Not a single day passes without the High Command being cursed and all that we see is the unravelling of one more scam. Mr.Chidambaram is the mischief maker who is doing all this to see that Rahul Gandhi does not become the PM as he can not ever dream of being the PM. An up and coming state has been reduced to a state of paralysis and the exodus will begin soon. The blunders of the Congress will result in it's decay very soon.
What Prime Minister said in response to a question from journalists while returning from Male, on“Telangana is correct and a region which has capital city and after development to this historic city since 1956 by every one of three regions cannot be ignored and mere demand by a section of people cannot be taken into cognizance for seprate state by dividing into two states.It is appropriate to refer the issue to second SRC and to abide by its recommendations in the interests of each and everyone and finally Nation.
The core commitee, Congress party's supreme think tank, met so many times, coagitated on Telangana for so many years but failed to get anything out of it. Is Telangana formation such a big thing that the cream of Congress cannot even come to a consensus after spemdomg so much time? god alone knows how the so called core team is doing on items related to the nation. How could they not arrive at a decision after so much discussion even while AP is burning? Each time a congress member opens his/her mouth on Telangana it is something new and with new deadline. People in Telangana are frustrated and that does not bode well for Congress in the next elections and beyond. Congress is a gone case in Telangana.
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