T ruckus at Parliament door - Lawyers Bid To Enter Parliament;Cong MPs Raise T Placards in LS

New Delhi: The national capital on Monday witnessed the ruckus over Telangana,with hundreds of lawyers from the region wanting to break away from Andhra Pradesh managing to get past the security cordon to reach the doorsteps of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.Hundreds of lawyers under the aegis of Telangana Lawyers Joint Action Committee (JAC) first assembled at Jantar Mantar, the dharna hotspot in the capital,for the Chalo Parliament demonstration.

The protesters who managed to gather votaries of smaller states from BJP MP Prakash Javadekar to RLD chief Ajit Singh to expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and the pro-Bundelkhand agitationist Raja Bundela also gheraoed urban development minister Jaipal Reddy at a different venue.
The protesters demanded that Reddy quit the government and asked him to raise the Jai Telangana slogan before letting him go. The protesters made their first bid to enter Parliament around 3 pm.Police personnel who were present in large numbers managed to stop the agitators just about 100 metres away from the highly-protected building. But the protesters,shouting Bring Bill for Telangana State managed to breach the cordon again and started running towards Parliament when they were stopped in their tracks by policemen.

The support for Telangana found expression inside Parliament premises through the display of placards by the Congress MPs from Telangana Madhu Yaskhi,G Vivekanand,Ponnam Prabhakar and others.Some of the placards read: Jai Telangana,Jai Congress.Honour government policy of 9th December, read another.The MPs alleged that policemen who raided the Osmania University campus had molested girl students,and demanded action against the guilty. Later the MPs displayed the placards outside the main entrance of Parliament. For almost 90 minutes,the protestors managed to block the traffic on the stretch near Parliament.Police tried to persuade the agitators to end their demonstration for about an hour as a religious procession was to pass through Parliament Street.Security personnel then herded the protesters into police vans after arresting them. The lawyers from various Bar Associations of all 10 districts in the Telangana region participated in the protest.
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3 more commit suicide for T

After S Yadaiahs selfimmolation near Osmania University on Saturday,three youngsters,including two students,in a span of 12 hours allegedly gave up their lives for a separate state.A Sarita,an Inter student of Sindhu Junior college in Mehdipatnam,allegedly committed suicide at her home in Aziz Colony of Moinabad mandal in RR district.Police found a suicide note,purportedly written by her,saying she was giving up her life for Telangana.In the second case,Ramoji Swamy,a class X student of Chellapur village in Medak district committed suicide.Another youth who attempted suicide in Warangal district on Sunday died on Monday afternoon.
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IHC cancels its meet at OU

The Indian History Congress (IHC) on Monday cancelled its scheduled three-day meet at Osmania University in view of the brouhaha over Telangana. The IHCs 70th session was slated to be held from March 12-14 in the university.
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BRAND HYDERABAD SURVIVES T-STIR - Whether you support Telangana or stand for united Andhra,citizens are in agreement on one thing - Brand Hyderabad has to be protected at all costs

It was in the midst of the 'T'agitation that an international retail chain did a recce of Hyderabad hot spots even as news channels flashed visuals of protesting students.At the end of the visit,the retail chain officials announced their verdict: they were coming to Hyderabad.Not because their business interest in the city was teflon coated but because they felt that the agitation could not take away Hyderabad's existing potential,one that has good infrastructure and manpower in place. "It is not a happy situation but it does not damage the city's potential,"reasons retail consultant Biswajit Patnaik of Ideal Mandate Consulting.He says the international retailer who visited Hyderabad saw each and every area of the city and then concluded that the city's infrastructure was in place.Its store would come up in the next 8-10 months. Ever since the city has been shaken by the T stir,people for and against a separate state have one common goal: that Brand Hyderabad should be protected and that it shouldn't get shadowed by the T stir.After all,people from across the state have made Hyderabad what it is today and that it remains investment-friendly is in everybody's interest,they say.

But how can the brand of IT hub Hyderabad be protected in these times of political uncertainty Perspec-tive, for starters, can do the needful.Like the retailer,denizens say,there is a need to hardsell one fact-strifes and conflict are not unique to this city alone.If industries in states like Gujarat and Maharashtra have stayed put despite more serious forms of conflicts there,business interest in Andhra Pradesh too would stay,they say.Hyderabad could be losing conferences and cricket to other venues,but that should be seen as a temporary trend owing to prevailing law and order situation.Denizens note that the city's airport,ORR,Hi-Tech city or the existing IT campuses form Hyderabad's potential. "We had a Build India conference recently and the response was good.They are (still) looking at various projects (in Hyderabad ).Development continues.Political differences should not affect growth,"says K Harish-chandra Prasad, president, Federation of AP Chambers of Commerce and Industries, adding that Hyderabad has not been written off yet. Nevertheless, he notes that focus has to shift from Osmania University now. While perspective to understand the T stir is being expected from outsiders (those looking at the state or the city to invest in),there is more to be done if Hyderabad's image of a bandh-prone city has to be salvaged.And for this,the attention has to shift from students and the campus. This, says high court lawyer V Pattabhi,can be done only if thinking individuals from the general public who support Telangana talk about it."Intellectuals need to start talking about it and not those seen in every discussion forum.There is a need for right thinking individuals to talk about the issue without fear or favour in public,"Pattabhi says,pointing out that this would create awareness about the issue.Also,the anti-Andhra rhetoric needs to die down to retain the city's cosmopolitan image.

Although nobody disputes protests and agitations in a democracy,they say it could do the city good if these protests were carried out differently."They need to come up with ways of protest that do not disrupt normal life.Signature campaigns too can galvanise public opinion or even a mobile phone survey,"says entrepreneur Satish Madhira,who benefited from the city's IT identity ten years ago when he started his own firm.He notes that the uncertainty,the siege is a concern for brand Hyderabad,but could be tackled with the other forms of protests,that can also be effective.After all,the country has woken up to various forms of protests which aren't about burning of buses alone.Besides,the heated agitation isn't really expediting the separate state process. People,says Pattabhi,have to ensure that Hyderabad does not lose its pride and identity.And these people needn't be based in the city.Lawyer Bhaskar Benny says that those watching the agitation from outside Hyderabad need to remember that even if divided,states do well."Bombay and Gujarat were divided but both flourished after the division,'' he says.
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SC to hear PIL on T guidelines


The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear a petition seeking laying down of guidelines for exercising powers by the government to go into the contentious issue of carving out separate state of Telangana. The apex court allowed the plea for deleting the prayer in the petition challenging the validity of the government action appointing the Justice B N Srikrishna Commission to look into the creation of Telangana state. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan posted the PIL for hearing after four weeks in which it has been contended that no constitutional power can be exercised arbitrarily and at will without there being any guidelines or basis. Power under Article 3 and 4 is the solemn constitutional power and it is obvious that no constitutional power can be exercised arbitrarily and at the will without there being a fundamental constitutional paradigm or basis to the exercise of power, the petitition filed by K Srinivas Reddy said.

Senior advocate Harish Salve appearing for the petitioner said the manner in which the entire matter relating to creation of a new state was being dealt with proved that there was no established principle for the government to act on such issues.He also sought a declaration that the re-organisation of states could be either on the basis of the linguistic affinity administrative convenience or other similar grounds.PTI
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Rosaiah denies deal with Naidu to stifle T voice


Chief minister K Rosaiah on Monday said he didnt have the capacity to enter into a match-fixing deal with TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu to suppress the Telangana issue from being raised in the state assembly.Reacting to the allegations made by former minister and senior Congress leader T Jeevan Reddy that both he and Naidu were trying to stifle the Telangana voice in the ongoing budget session,the CM remarked tongue-in-cheek : Chandrababu is a young man like my predecessor Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.I am unlike him.Any match is played between people of the same age group.I can neither play matches nor fix them. Rosaiah, however, lamented that responsible leaders in the party were levelling allegations on issues that ought to be discussed within the four walls.The party high command will take care of such people, he said,sounding a warning to Jeevan Reddy.The CM was on a two-day tour of north coastal districts. Rosaiah said there was no timeframe for the state cabinet expansion.
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