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Telangana: sub-committee report in 15 days

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, NOV. 27. The Union Minister of State for Rural Development, A. Narendra, has said that the sub-committee of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to go into the demand for a separate Telangana will be given 15 days to submit its report.

Mr. Narendra told reporters here today that the panel would be constituted before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's forthcoming foreign tour. It would have three members acceptable to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The TRS had suggested the Union Ministers — Pranab Mukherjee and Sharad Pawar — and a Forward Bloc MP, Vishnu Dutt, on the panel.

Terms of reference

On the terms of reference of the committee, he said that it would confine itself to gathering opinion from the UPA partners as to ``how to go about the job of forming the new State." It would not seek a consensus on the demand for the State. ``Concurrence not consensus'' was the buzzword. The move was to bring all the UPA constituents on one platform on the issue.

Mr. Narendra said the announcement of the sub-committee had put an end to the talk of the States Reorganisation Commission as a recommendatory body for the creation of the State. It was a check on people who talked in different voices on the issue. It was now clear that Telangana was a foregone conclusion, he said, adding "we will be in a new State by March 2005."

He added that the sub-committee was the result of an ultimatum served on the UPA Government by the TRS two days ago that it would walk out of the alliance if there was no progress in granting Statehood. The party knocked all the doors in Delhi last month to convince people about the need for the State.

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