AP Assembly pushes Telangana Issue to ext year

Here is an article regarding the Telangana Issue where politicians from outside Telangana are planning to create trouble. It mentions that hundreds of Goondas (hired assassins) from Andhra (by Lagadapati Rajgopal, the MP from Vijayawada) and Factionists from Raayalaseema (by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, MP from Kadapa)were brought to Hyderabad to create trouble. Here is the Original article that appeared on MSN: House pushes T-issue to next year, fear in Hyderabad

The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned sine die following pandemonium soon after it began for the day's proceedings on Monday amidst slogan shouting by MLAs in favour of unified Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This means that the resolution on Telangana will get further delayed and can be tabled only in the next session sometime in January end or early February next year.


Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy adjourned the House sine die after legislative affairs minister D Prasada Rao moved a motion Under Rule 16 of the Assembly Rules in that regard amidst pandemonium.

The Assembly was originally scheduled to hold the winter session till December 23.

However, with more than 130 MLAs of Andhra and Raalayasemma Region submitting their resignations and with the remaining members disrupting the proceedings, government chose to bring the sessions to an end.

The winter session which began on December 7 had not transacted any business in the five days it sat except for passing a condolence resolution in memory of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy.

Prasada Rao said conducting proceedings in the House was not possible in a surcharged atmosphere and at a time when majority of MLAs have submitted their resignation.

Meanwhile, with reports that goondas and anti-social elements from Andhra and Raayalaseema regions have been hired to create trouble in Hyderabad, the city opened the week with a sense of fear psychosis. A worried Congress government took hundreds of suspects into preventive custody on Sunday and Monday.

Supporters of Telangana too have stepped up pressure saying that they will not tolerate any trouble or protests in Hyderabad. The police have set up roadblocks on way to Hyderabad as anti-Telangana protests, sweeping Coastal Andhra and Raayalaseema, headed for the state capital on Monday.


Both Raayalaseema and parts of Coastal Andhra are known to have well-oiled gangs that could be hired to foment trouble at a short notice.

The TRS has warned it would retaliate if protesters from Andhra and Raayalaseema hold programmes in Hyderabad on Monday. Harish Rao, TRS MLA from Siddipet, said TRS leaders would mobilise their cadres to counter the anti-Telangana protests.

Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned sine die following pandemonium soon after it began for the day's proceedings on Monday amidst slogan shouting by MLAs in favour of unified Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.This means that the Telangana resolution cannot be tabled in this session.

Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy adjourned the House sine die after legislative affairs minister D Prasada Rao moved a motion Under Rule 16 of the Assembly Rules in that regard amidst pandemonium.

The Assembly was originally scheduled to hold the winter session till December 23.

However, with more than 130 MLAs of Andhra and Raalayasemma Region submitting their resignations and with the remaining members disrupting the proceedings, government chose to bring the sessions to an end.


The winter session which began on December 7 had not transacted any business in the five days it sat except for passing a condolence resolution in memory of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy.

Prasada Rao said conducting proceedings in the House was not possible in a surcharged atmosphere and at a time when majority of MLAs have submitted their resignation.

Early Monday morning, Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal was arrested at the airport in Hyderabad soon after he landed to launch an indefinite fast to oppose the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh, police said.

Tension prevailed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad on the city outskirts as Rajagopal's supporters tried to resist the arrest.

Police have taken Rajagopal to an undisclosed location in view of threats by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), student bodies and Congress leaders from Telangana region to stop him from launching any protest in Hyderabad.

The industrialist, whose Lanco Group of companies has huge business interests in Hyderabad, is against the central government's decision to give separate statehood to Telangana region, which comprises 10 districts including Hyderabad.

As tension was mounting in the city following TRS' allegations that Rajagopal was bringing hired goons from Vijayawada to create trouble in Hyderabad, police Sunday night raided several hotels and lodges in the city and arrested several supporters of the MP.


Under state orders to stop protesters from entering the city, police put up barriers on the Vijayawada-Hyderabad National Highway 9 to stop supporters of Rajgopal from heading towards Hyderabad. Rajagopal has been denied police permission to start a fast unto-death from Monday in the city.

The police action added to the fury in Coastal Andhra.

Vijayawada mayor Ratna Bindu and former mayor Mallika Begum, who were arrested, alleged that the "Telangana lobby" was behind the government action.

The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which had so far been silent, declared that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) should withdraw its slogan "Telanganawale jaago, Andhrawale bhago". Assaduddin Owaisi, MIM MP from Hyderabad, said the slogan was creating "a fear psychosis" among people living in Hyderabad.

Several ministers, meanwhile, urged Chief Minister Rosaiah to introduce a resolution for a separate Telangana in the Assembly on Monday.

But the Assembly had to be adjourned as pandemonium prevailed.

On Sunday, Coastal and Raayalaseema districts dug in their heels. Several people have gone on fast-unto death, similar to what TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao had undertaken. Two railway stations in Anantapur district were torched and students in hundreds staged protest rallies. Normal life is expected to be affected in Andhra and Raayalaseema where several groups have called or a two-day bandh.

Leaders of political parties rushed to Rosaiah urging him to take steps before he situation takes a turn for the worse. Devineni Uma Maheshwara Rao and Chinnam Kotaiah, TDP MLAs from Mylavaram and Nuzvid in Krishna district, former Viayawada mayor B Anuradha, 20 students and 70 women in Kurnool town sat on a fast-unto-death.


Meanwhile, ministers who had threatened to resign have quietly backtracked and left Rosaiah alone. Telangana ministers, who made similar threats, also took a break.

Sources said it had become known to the Congress central leadership that there were other reasons for the resignation threats by ministers from Coastal Andhra and Raayalaseema. Rosaiah said the party high command had been apprised of the situation and would do the needful.

Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) Chiranjeevi was among those who met Rosaiah and urged him to take immediate steps to prevent the law and order situation in Andhra and Raayalaseema regions from deteriorating.

"Many people have started hunger strikes in Coastal and Raayalaseema areas. I urged the CM to take steps to ensure that law and order situation remains normal," he said.

Andhra and Raayalaseema regions of the state are witnessing protests for the last four days against the government's decision to initiate the process for granting separate statehood to Telangana.