As Telangana stands suspended, Pranab Mukherjee ensured while meeting a delegation of Congress MPs from the state’s Andhra and Rayalaseema regions in the Parliament House that the statehood of Telangana will not be discussed in Lok Sabha unless and until Andhra Pradesh passes a resolution keeping into view the wishes and demands of the leaders for another separate state of Telangana.
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Perhaps Andhra Pradesh splitting into two states is acting as a catalyst to haste the formation of smaller states. For Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister of India to consider the trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh. She has requested Dr. Manmohan Singh to let the rise of independent states of Bundelkhand and Harit take place.
This decision has been taken to tame the “Unmanageable” state of Uttar Pradesh. “I have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to give us clearance for creating independent states of Budelkhand and Harit Pradesh out of a giant-sized and unmanageable Uttar Pradesh.”
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Union home secretary G K Pillai hinted that Hyderabad will be the capital of Telangana, the proposed state to be cut out of the state of Andhra Pradesh. “Hyderabad, I think, will always be the capital of Telangana, Pillai stated at a press meet today.
This statement comes a day after atleast 130 MPs have threatened to resign in a protest against culling out the state of Telengana. “I’m sure that in the coming days, as people understand the real implication of what is meant, I think the agitation would die down and the process for formation of the new state would continue,” Pillai said.
Pillai’s remark has been termed “Provocative” by many.
The crisis has deepened as more and more political patriots deciding on resignations. The MPs led by K.Sambasiva Rao said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured them that no hasty decisions will be taken to bring into effect the new state. Rao said that “The prime minister has assured us that no hasty decision will be taken on this issue. He said the matter will be discussed in the Congress core committee meeting expected later Friday.”
L. Rajagaopal, a Congress MP, warned the government that he will start a fast if Telangana is ever designed out of AP. Out of the 130 MPs who have already submitted their resignations, 76 legislators belong to the ruling Congress, 40 of the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and 14 of the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP). They have all accused the UPA-led government of not consulting them when making decisions on Telangana. The Congress has a total of 156 legislators in State Assembly. Chief Minister K. Rosaiah although denied that the possibility of a minority position in the assembly if supporting legislators resign, but said that he received neither written nor oral directions from the central government to move a resolution in the assembly and pointed out that such resolutions can be passed only after consensus.
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Failing Madhu Koda’s scheduled appearance at a special vigilance court today, the Vigilance Bureau has sent fresh summons (read December 4) to the former Jharkhand Chief Minister to appear on the controversial case of money laundering worth Rs. 4000 crores, of the year in which Koda is one of the prime accused. “He was to appear today. But he sent a letter stating that he was busy in electioneering. The department immediately issued (fresh) summons to appear before it on December 4,” M.V Rao, Inspector General of Police, Vigilance Dept. stated in a conference.
Among the other accused facing trial before the court along with Koda are Bandhu Tirkey, Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Sahi, all of who were ministers in Koda government.
Koda demanded excuse from the public appearance citing campaigning and elections as the reason. While the former minister excused himself from appearing before the Enforcement Departments citing the same reason, he had pleaded innocence moments after his release from the Apollo hospital where he was treated for stomach ache.
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Uttar Pradesh is earning really dirty names. Only today, a pregnant woman was stripped and paraded naked around the village after she refused to hand over a piece of land that belonged to her husband to the encroachers.
On Sunday evening at Karnawala village in Bijnor district, about 400 km from Lucknow, four villagers charged into the woman’s residence while she was alone and demanded the land from her. They beat her and stripped her after she refused to give in to their demand.
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Sleuths have arrested a suspected Pakistani spy from the Indira Gandhi Airport. Security officials have detained him and photographs and certain other documents have been seized from him. Union Home Secretary G K Pillai refused to indulge in further talks.
Investigations are on, according to police and will be released to the press when they are over. This comes only days before the historic terror day 26/11.
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Mumbai city has, after almost a year pending 18 days (26/11, 2008 attacks) finally got its first group of Force One Commandos who have been trained in the lines of National Security Guards who “will become operational,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Chandra Iyengar said. The commandoes have been provided with rigorous training by Israeli and German trainers. The Mumbai Police Department has also been provided with new weapons, vehicles and technologies and have been trained in such a way that they respond to any situation.”
An upgradation of police force and coastal security alongwith the strengthening of intelligence and the participation of local residents in tipping recent developments has been made mandatory by the government. While high speed boats have been provided for patrolling and ‘Sagar Suraksha Dal’, a group of 40,000 local fishermen, has been formed to collect information who “have been provided mobile phones and SIM cards to keep coastal security and police updated if they notice something suspicious,” she said.
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Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, minutes after release from the Apollo hospital where he was being treated for a severe stomach ache, has pleaded innocence. He has been accused of money laundering worth Rs.2,500 crore. He claims that “Charges against me are false.”
He refuted charges against him and when asked about the strong evidence against him, only replied “Ask them (the IT department).”
Koda has also been accused of gathering assets beyond his normal income.
“The special commissioner Ajay Kumar is scrutinizing the mines case,” Ajit Kumar Srivastav, additional director of IT, said to the media. He also added that they have come across “documents and information related to investment in foreign countries and money sent through hawala. Koda will be interrogated to know about foreign investments and the hawala transactions and how the network was working.”
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Five railway employees, Ramesh, Ram Rattan, Pooran, Ajay and Radhey, working on maintainance of Ghaziabad railway tracks , couldn’t see two trains speeding towards them and got hit and were killed at the spot. At around 11.10 a.m. “They were doing maintenance work on the tracks,” Anant Swarup, chief public relations officer of Northern Railways, stated when the accident occurred.
“Five gang men were engaged in repairing track number three, when they heard the sound of an approaching train. As the visibility was low due to fog, the workers thought the train was coming on track number three and they jumped on to track number four to save themselves,” an official was heard saying.
“Unfortunately there was a train – Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express – coming on track number four. With trains on both tracks, the workers had no chance of getting away and were crushed under the two trains,” he added.
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29 fresh cases of Dengue were reported today in Delhi taking the toll of victims struck with this deathly vector-borne disease to 527. Chief Medical Officer, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, N.K. Yadav told the media that “about 203 challans were issued in last one week. At least 5,166 challans have been issued since January where breeding of mosquito (in stagnant water) responsible for spread of the disease was found.”
Debashish Bhattacharya, the state’s nodal officer for assessing the correct number of dengue cases stated that 1,354 legal notices have been issued to places where breeding of mosquitoes have not been checked. Bhattacharya succedded Charan Singh who was pulled out by Delhi Health’s Minister Kiran Walia on charges of miscalculations of infections. Bhattacharya, “as the state nodal officer, will collect and cross check the figures of dengue cases from the hospitals,” Walia informed.
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