TRS to press on Telangana

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Sunday decided to exert pressure on the Congress government to move a resolution in the Assembly seeking formation of Telangana state during the budget session beginning on Monday.

This is for the first time that the TRS is pressing for a resolution in the state Assembly. The party has been maintaining all along that an assembly resolution is not mandatory for the creation of a new state.

The party MLAs and MLCs who met here on Sunday resolved to make the separate state issue a priority subject in the budget session.

"Apart from raising the issue of injustice being meted out to the region in allocation of funds, the party is primarily pressing for the adoption of a resolution asking the Centre to form a separate state,"TRS spokesperson T Prakash told TOI .

"Though a resolution is not mandatory for creation of Telangana, we want to expose the duplicity of the Congress, which went back on its commitment it had made to us during the release of its election manifesto,"Prakash said.

"Our MLAs and MLCs will raise the issue on every occasion in both the Houses. If necessary we will not hesitate to stall the proceedings of the House,"he warned. The meeting was chaired by party president K Chandrasekhar Rao