Constitution of India : Article 3

Article 3 Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States
Parliament may by law -
(a) form a new State by separation of territory from any State or by uniting two or more States or parts of States or by uniting any territory to a part of any State;
(b) increase the area of any State;
(c) diminish the area of any State;
(d) alter the boundaries of any State;
(e) alter the name of any State:
Provided that no Bill for the purpose shall be introduced in either House of Parliament except on the recommendation of the President and unless, where the proposal contained in the Bill affects the area, boundaries or name of any of the States, the Bill has been referred by the President to the Legislature of that State for expressing its views thereon within such period as may be specified in the reference or within such further period as the President may allow and the period so specified or allowed has expired.
Explanation I: In this article, in clauses (a) to (e), "State" includes a Union territory, but in the proviso, "State" does not include a Union territory.
Explanation II: The power conferred on Parliament by clause (a) includes the power to form a new State or Union territory by uniting a part of any other State or Union territory to any other State of Union territory.

Straight 4 questions to Telangana opposers

Democracy is for all people, rules are for all people and should be equal. Stopping an MLA from expressing his views outside the Assembly should be definitely condemned. At the same length there are a few questions.
1. Why are peaceful protests banned by govt in Telangana
2. Why is media blocked from publish Telangana protests (an unofficial Emergency put in place already)
3. Why are so many people in Telangana are beaten up, arrested, and booked in cases for expressing their views to have Telangana state as promised by Govt of India and UPA-1 since 2004 inside Parliament, President's speech, home minister statement on Dec 9, 2009
4. The MLA conveniently forgot the very people who elected him and is speaking against their interests, in the name of pseudo statesmanship.
Address the core issue of Telangana, Stop the diversion tactics, picking up some mistake here and there. Personally including me many of us will apologise for whatever some people would have done, under whatever circumstances.
Debate should be on the original subject that concerns millions of people in Telangana and their right of expression and self respect. States have not been formed by concesus of all concerned that can never be the criteria, it is always a political decision, what we are asking is implementation of announced political decision, that shall be achieved.

Oka Telangana bidda to JP

We know what we are doing and we certainly know who is the culprit. Curruption and all bull, we will deal with it later. Right now our one and only ambition is getting T-state. When JP respects people's mandate so much and why doesn't he take the responsibility by standing with T-people. We all know it's not a fake movement unlike SA movement. Whole country knows, that it is a genuine struggle. I'm not able digest, why an intellectual like him is totally putting a blank face on this issue. What's disgusting is, he always comes with "telangana vaste, telangana vallaku pedda vorigedi emi undadu..SA vallaku pedda nastamu undadu.. When he knows that, why doesn't he stand with the people in this genuine struggle. I was an adrent admirer of him and now,I wouldn't say I hate him but atleast, I dont like him anymore.

"Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob"

He better listen to the people instead of lecturing them.

I will follow his Ideology once we achive telangana and I believe It's not mandatory that we should be all together to root out curruption.

Ask your JP to listen to the people first, ask him to go to the villages to see the plight of the people. Don't give god damn reasons like all regions have the same plight. If thats your answer, then why not get seperated then. It will be easier to govern smaler states than larger states. Then there wont be any issues called negligence and all.

"Loksatta neither supported samikyandhra nor Telangana. Why dont u understand? what makes everyone think Loksatta is opposing telangana n supporting united andhra? "

Why not..thats our eternal question. As a politcal leader, as an MLA and as a respectable party president, why doesn't he come up with his stand. He should let us know, so that we will decide whether to stay with him or not. First ask him to let us know his stand. When 100′s of people are commiting suicides on this issue, why doesn't he respond. He doesn't respond when SA cops brutally attacked student including girls and journalists. Everyone remained calm and JP is no exception. I had tremendous amount of respect for this guy and I was wrong.
I coudn't believe, the man of his stature, compared ethiopia and USA. wow..JP…
By not making his stand clear, he has joined the rest of the flock(congress, TDP etc). Atleast Chiru is better as he made his stand clear.

Well.. anyways..We will not stop our agitation until we get our state and we will surely make them pay, whoever playing cunning games with our lives.

Jai Telangana

Stir brings governance to halt

Government employees taking part in Telangana Joint Action Committee's non-cooperation call brought the district administration to a grinding halt on Thursday.

The collectorate office and Enumamula market yard remained bereft of any activity. Barring emergency services like medical, sanitation, electricity, water works and bus, government employees of all other departments took part in the non-cooperation, which has been violence-free in the district.

"The entire administration has been paralysed," claimed Paritala Subba Rao, chairman of Warangal Government Employees Joint Action Committee, who led a large rally with employees and Warangal Chamber of Commerce officials from Enumamula market yard to collectorate office on Thursday.

Expressing solidarity with the government employees, the all-union JAC of Singareni unit at Bhupalpally also observed a two-hour tool down affecting coal production.

As part of the non-cooperation movement, the Singareni workers have already given a strike call on February 23-24. With the participation of the government teachers in the non-cooperation call, the ongoing census exercise was badly affected as barring a few teachers affiliated to UTF of the CPI(M), all the school assistants and SGT teachers boycotted the enumeration.

The worst-affected government department, however, was the RTC as bus drivers found it difficult to resume service at many places after passengers refused to buy tickets. Speaking to this newspaper, R. Gangadhar, regional manager, RTC, Warangal, said they faced problems in mandals like Jangaon, Narsempet, Parvathagiri, Atmakur and Duggondi.

"Wherever there were problems, police intervened," he said, adding that RTC employees, especially drivers and conductors, turned up for duty despite the non-cooperation call.

According to sources, instances of ticketless travel mostly occurred on the Warangal-Jangaon, Warangal-Parkal, Warangal-Narsempet, Jangaon-Hyderabad routes forcing drivers to stop buses midway.

Police also arrested scores of ticketless travelers from many places, including Narsempet and Mahbubabad, where more than 100 people were arrested for not buying tickets.

Elsewhere, in Parkal and District Court Complex in Subedari, advocates' association also boycotted court proceedings to express solidarity with the government employees. "The present tempo would continue for two more days till the TJAC and the executive body of the Government Employees, Workers, Teachers and Pensioners JAC decide the future course

of action at a review meeting to be held in Hyderabad on Sunday," added Mr Paritala Subba Rao.

 

(Curtesy: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/karimnagar/stir-brings-governance-halt-722)

Reveal secret T-report: HC judge

Justice L. Narasimha Reddy of the AP High Court on Friday expressed outrage at the contents of the 'secret report' submitted by the Justice Srikrishna Committee on state bifurcation and said it should be made public so that people would know what such committees were doing.

The judge, who perused the report, said its contents were mind boggling and added that the committee exceeded its terms and references in preparing a report on law and order situation. Regarding the references on the communal and political overtones of the bifurcation, the judge remarked that the committee had "over projected certain non existing things in its 'secret' findings." "It is unfortunate that a retired judge of Supreme Court was associated with this kind of report," he said. "It is disgraceful for any person. Was it for this that the government spent `40 crore on the committee?"

He added that such reports would decrease the public confidence in judiciary. "If the judiciary fails in protecting democracy then who will?" the judge asked.

The additional solicitor-general, Mr M. Ravindran, while placing the secret report in a sealed cover, said it was prepared on the basis of intelligence inputs and urged the court to peruse it.

Justice Narasimha Reddy left for chambers to examine the report. He returned in 25 minutes in an angry mood and said the contents make disturbing reading. "It should be put before the public, so the people can know what sorts of committees are appointed by the governments," he said.

On being persuaded by the judge, the ASG also read the last two pages of the report and agreed that the committee need not have gone into all this. However, Mr Ravindran added that the Centre would file a counter affidavit if the judge wanted to make the report public.

The court then returned the 'secret report' and posted the matter to March 3.

 

(Courtesy : http://www.deccanchronicle.com/hyderabad/reveal-secret-t-report-hc-judge-768)

SriKrishna Committee gave false Report : AP State High Court

Srikrishna report full of blatant lies: HC judge

Justice L Narasimha Reddy of the AP High Court on Thursday described the 'secret' contents of the Srikrishna Committee as full of lies and mind-boggling descriptions of non-existent things.
 
 "It is unfortunate that this report and its related exercise was presided over by a former judge of the Supreme Court," he told additional solicitor general M Raveendran. The issue came up when the judge was hearing a petition filed by former Congress MP M Narayan Reddy demanding chapter 8 of the committee report, which was submitted to the Centre in a sealed envelope, be made public. "This committee has spent Rs 40 crore of public money for preparing its report. Any person with a semblance of faith in the system of democracy would lose faith in it. The report prepared by the front office of an MP would have been more sensible than this report. Even the high command of a political party would have hesitated to prepare such a report," he noted.

 

(Curtesy: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Srikrishna-report-full-of-blatant-lies-HC-judge/articleshow/7518697.cms)

TRS denies attacking Lok Satta Party chief

Denying that they attacked Lok Satta Party president and MLA N Jayaprakash Narayan in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly premises, TRS MLAs today alleged that he never cared for the sentiments of Telangana people.

?We did not attack him. He says our protest against Governor?s address is a black day. But why has he never shown any respect for the sentiments of Telangana. Why did he not condemn the suicides of hundreds of Telangana people,? senior TRS MLA T Harish Rao told reporters.

Claiming that Mr. Narayan was responsible for creating an atmosphere of confrontation in the assembly, TRS politburo members T Jagadish Reddy and Shravan Kumar said what happened in the assembly was only a manifestation of Telangana self-respect.

TRS MLAs allegedly beat up the Lok Satta Party chief and Congress MLC Paladugu Venkata Rao in the premises of the State Assembly today.

The alleged incident occurred after the TRS MLAs tried to manhandle Governor E S L Narasimhan inside the House during his address to the joint sitting of both the houses on the opening day of the Budget Session.

 

(Courtesy : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article1465105.ece)