cherlapalli_jailer Posted December 2, 2013 Author Report Posted December 2, 2013 In fact, Union Rural Development Minister and member of GoM looking into the state bifurcation issue, Jairam Ramesh, was said to have broached the Rayala Telangana proposal when Deputy chief minister Damodara Rajanarasimha had met him in New Delhi. However, except Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party and a few Congress leaders from Anantapuram district, there are no takers for the Rayala Telangana plan. Everyone across the political spectrum in Telangana is opposing the idea. Local political circles are abuzz with speculation that Congress' game plan is to first outsmart the united AP protagonists when the draft Bill is referred to the state assembly for its views. By merging Kurnool and Anantapuram districts with proposed Telangana, Congress wants to ensure that the strength in the 294-member assembly is equally divided at 147 seats. However, there is unanimity among all parties that they want nothing less than a separate state with 10 districts with Hyderabad as the capital. Congress leaders from the region conferred under the leadership of deputy chief minister C Damodara Rajanarasimha here and strongly opposed the Rayala Telangana plan. Though Rajanarasimha was supposed to meet the high command leaders again in New Delhi today and press the case for a Telangana state only, he put off his trip at the last minute. But another senior leader D Srinivas met Union Defence Minister and GoM member A K Antony and other leaders in New Delhi today and said to have opposed the Rayala Telangana move. Congress MPs from Telangana, too, are planning to meet members of the GoM in a day or two and firmly oppose this plan.
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