By M H Ahssan / INN Live
Jaganmohan Reddy launched a vehement attack on Congress today by hinting that Sonia Gandhi‘s personal ambitions to see her son as the Prime Minister of the country has split Andhra Pradesh into to. “Someone wanted the son to become a PM and bifurcated Telangana,” Jagan said, adding, “Just for 16-17 seats, how can they play with the future of lakhs of people in a state.”
Speaking to INN Live, Jaganmohan Reddy who has began an indefinite strike to oppose the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, said that the Congress government has split a state without considering important issues like water supply.
By Praveen Kumar / Anantapur
Massive violence reports coming in from all over Seemandhra where normal life remained crippled for the second day on Saturday in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions where a bandh is being observed to protest the Centre's decision to bifurcate the State.
Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers (APNGOs) and other united-AP supporters have given a 48-hour bandh call, while Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress has called for 72-hour shutdown in the non-Telangana regions.
By Ramesh Reddy / Hyderabad
The big question is which Hyderabad becomes the joint capital? Is it only Hyderabad city proper with its twin city Secunderbad but without its IT enclave Cyberabad and also without many upmarket areas like Madhapur and beyond which fall in Ranga Reddy district ? Or will the joint capital be all of it together that means a whopping area of 625 sq km that defines the limit of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
- Cabinet doesn't detail the Hyderabad area
By M H Ahssan / INN Live
In the December of Year 2000, India's 26th, 27th and 28th states, namely Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, were born. They came out of the shadows of their parent provinces split from -- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, respectively. With new capitals, they were to find their separate identities. But the case of the upcoming 29th state, Telangana, is starkly different.
Its birth would eclipse the parent state itself, reducing it to nothing but a small block (Rayalseema) and a coastal strip (Coastal Andhra) on the map of the country. In case of UP, MP and Bihar, their names and respective capitals remained the same. In case of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh would cease to exist. And Hyderabad will not be capital of Andhra, but Telangana. In the scheme of states, it's Seemandhra that will be born. Telangana would just acquire the name Telangana.
By Salim Merchant / Port Blair
In an interesting development, a group of 10 people from the Andaman's Jarawa community have come out of the forest at Kadamtala Island in Middle Andaman and protested at the Kadamtala panchayat office demanding that they wanted meet the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands to lodge a complaint with him for shortage of food items.
By M H Ahssan / INN Live
Andhra Pradesh may be divided, but it will not cease to exist. Seemandhra, or what will be left over after carving out the Telangana state, will retain the name, as a consolation prize.
As per the Cabinet note on Telangana prepared by the Union Home Ministry and accessed by INN, it was proposed that the new state be named as ‘Telangana’ and the name of residuary state may be retained as Andhra Pradesh.
By M H Ahssan / INN Live
The government is grappling with aggressive whiplash over last evening's decision to proceed with the creation of a Telangana state. Three Union ministers have sent their resignation letters to the PM, and Jagan Mohan Reddy says he will go on an indefinite fast from tomorrow against the decision. Amidst huge protests in parts of Andhra Pradesh over the cabinet decision, INN ask on Left, Right And Centre: by putting Telangana on the fast-track has the government made a politically explosive gamble?
By Aeman Nishat / Hyderabad
Hyderabad's brilliant boxer Nikhat Zareen (17), who won a silver in the World Youth Women’s Boxing Championship in Bulgaria, is eligible for the cash incentive according to the State’s sports policy
She arrived in the city hoping to meet Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy after her recent silver medal winning performance in the World Youth Women’s Boxing Championship in Bulgaria.
But, 17-year-old Nikhat Zareen has been unable to do so and is staying put at her uncle’s place at Ahmednagar as the political developments have kept the powers-that-be quite busy so as to spare time for this champion boxer.
