HYDERABAD: Barring Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), no other party appears serious about pressing for a resolution seeking formation of a Telangana state in the winter session of Assembly beginning on Thursday.After the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting ahead of the session, TRS floor leader Etela Rajender said the TRS members would not allow conduct of business in the house unless a resolution is adopted for creation of a Telangana state. “Make no mistake about it. We will disrupt the proceedings. I have said so at the BAC meeting convened by the Speaker,” he said.But Telangana MLAs of the Telugu Desam and Congress are not keen on pressing for a T resolution in the Assembly. Asked whether Telugu Desam MLAs would seek a resolution in the house, party senior leader and former minister P Ashok Gajapati Raju said: “Telangana issue is not a priority subject now. Anyway the TDP legislature party will take a view on it.”The Congress MLAs from the region have come up with an interesting argument in response to the TRS’s demand that all Telangana MLAs should join hands for passing a resolution in the Assembly to facilitate introduction of a T bill in Parliament. MLA Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy of the Congress said: “In the Assembly, we will discuss development issues. Statehood issue will be sorted out at Delhi.” Not stopping at that, he wanted to know why the TRS was putting forth the demand that all parties should seek the resolution when it said it was ready to support the no-confidence motion being initiated by the TDP, which is an ‘anti-Telagnana’ party.He said: “Everyone knows the only stumbling block for creation of a Telangana state is the TDP. How could the TRS support a no-confidence motion moved by the TDP.”Responding, a TRS MLA said: “We do not have sufficient strength to move a no-confidence motion. Since the TDP is moving the motion, irrespective of its intentions behind the move, we have decided to support it because we have lost faith that the Kiran Kumar Reddy government will deliver a Telangana state.”In Delhi, the Congress MPs’ stand had changed a little after a meeting with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday. G Vivek (Peddapalli) said, “For the Centre to introduce a bill in Parliament, the state has to pass a resolution in the Assembly. Let the Congress MLAs do their job and we will do our job in Delhi.”However, the Congress MLAs put the ball back into the MPs’ court. “There is no need for an Assembly resolution. The Centre on its own could introduce a bill in Parliament,” Venkata Ramana Reddy said.
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