Telangana Panel Chief Springs A Surprise With The Remark
The Srikrishna committee is slated to come
back to the city for three days beginning May 17 and hear the Congress
party delegations as well as non-gazetted officers and similar other
groups like student JACs.Hyderabad:
The Srikrishna Committee on Wednesday left both the advocates of
Telangana as well as its opponents puzzled by stating that the panel
can end up not recommending the division of the state or endorsing the
United Andhra principle but can come up “with a middle path.”
And
what precisely this middle path could be, it preferred not to spell.
“You will have to wait till December 31, 2010, or January 1, 2011,”
committee chairman Justice B N Srikrishna told the media. The committee has been given time till the end of the year to submit its report.
Srikrishna said: “There is a strong section which feels
Telangana should be carved out of the present state and another section
that the state should not be bifurcated. We may choose one of them or
even come up with a middle
path if possible.” Committee member secretary V K Duggal in a bid to
cap any controversy that could result from the chairman’s statements
said that a solution was being arrived at and that it was too early to
say what it could be. “The chairman merely said it could go this way or
the other and that there can be other possibilities as well. There is
nothing like Buddha’s middle path. There is a middle path, a path to
the left and a path to the right. What is in the best interests of the
people will be done at the appropriate time,” he said in a response that left everybody confused.
According
to analysts, the Srikrishna panel is veering around to considering a
solution that may advocate greater and unique powers for the Telangana
region without creating a new state. “It can be on the lines of
Gorkhaland that is being worked out in West Bengal. Telangana can have
complete executive, legislative and judicial authority and still remain
within Andhra Pradesh. This could be the thinking among the panel
members,” said an analyst. T panel looking at a compromise formula
Hyderabad:
Opinions and recommendations submitted to the Srikrishna Committee so
far by various political parties and non-political organisations have
boiled down to three, namely, creation of Telangana, keeping Andhra
Pradesh intact as it is and either merging of Rayalaseema with
Telangana in case the state is divided or the creation of three new
states of Andhra, Rayalaseema and Telangana.
Leaders who
interacted with the panel members said the questions that were being
asked by them appeared to indicate that they had some sort of
compromise formula at the back of their minds.
“If dividing
the state is not a solution and keeping it intact is not acceptable to
the Telangana advocates,what can be a solution that is acceptable to
both the groups. They are trying to build a consensus towards this
solution,” said a leader.
But with the sentiments very strong,
it is not going to be that easy for the committee to convince the
warring groups to accept such a solution. “For our leader TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, nothing short of creation of Telangana is unacceptable,” said a TRS leader.
Perhaps
sensing that the Srikrishna Committee is working towards such a
solution, KCR had stated on Monday that he would resume his
fast-unto-death on December 31 this year in case the panel did not
recommend the creation of a separate state.
And United Andhra
leaders too are not willing to settle for anything less than keeping
the state intact. “There cannot be any special treatment or exclusive
powers for Telangana. The state government should take care of the
under or less developed areas in all the three regions,” said an Andhra
leader.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the panel members heard the
Andhra leaders from the TDP and members of the Telangana Freedom
Fighters Forum. |
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