Telangana party plans to stall parliament

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao Monday said

his party along with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would stall

parliament on the Telangana issue.He told reporters here that

the TRS would devise a strategy with the support of the Bahujan Samaj

Party to stall the winter session of parliament beginning Tuesday, to

demand immediate steps for formation of a separate Telangana state.KCR,

as Rao is popularly known, once again urged Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh to table a bill during the winter session for carving out a

Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh."If the government believes

in democracy, it should respect the sentiments of Telangana people by

introducing a bill for Telangana state," he said.KCR and another TRS MP,, Vijayshanti, Monday left for New Delhi to attend the parliament session.Making

it clear that no alternative would be acceptable to people in the

Telangana region, KCR warned that the Congress would be buried if it

tried to further delay statehood to Telangana.The TRS leader

reminded the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of its Dec 9,

2009, statement that the process for formation of a separate Telangana

state would be initiated.He demanded that the government should

respect the resolution passed by the Uttar Pradesh assembly for division

of that state in four smaller states.Hailing Uttar Pradesh

Chief Minister Mayawati's "bold" decision, the TRS leader said smaller

states were necessary to hasten their development."On behalf of four and half crore people of the Telangana region, I thank Mayawatiji for her support to Telangana," he said.