“Hyderabad is no one’s property, it belongs to all”

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was completely focussed to ensure all round development of the new State and it has neither the inclination nor patience to get involved in a squabble over regional issues being raked up by certain sections, said TRS leader and Sircilla MLA K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday. At a function organised by the Telangana Builders Federation, Mr.Rao said even when the Telangana agitation was at its peak and emotions ran high, people from other regions did not face any trouble or harm. “Some tried and continue to try to spread all sort of rumours and fears but I request you not to believe them. Has there been even a small incident?” he asked.

The slogan of ‘Hyderabad sirf hamara hai’ was taken up when the Union Government made attempts at keeping control of the city and not making it part of Telangana. “Hyderabad is no one’s property, it belongs to all,” he asserted and also ridiculed ‘claims of some to have built the city’.

“Cities such as Hyderabad evolve over a period of time and by just building some structures, one cannot claim to have built the city,” Mr.Rao said. Assuring all support to the real estate, he said the builders fraternity would be involved in the process of decision making pertaining to the sector.

“The city realty was poised for a positive growth. Buy property within next three months or so, else the prices are going to rise high,” he predicted. Party chief and Chief Minister designate K. Chandrasekhar Rao was clear and focussed on initiating steps for all-round growth and prosperity of the new State.

“KCR keeps telling us people have elected us and it is our responsibility to fulfil their aspirations and hopes. The new government will ensure safe and peaceful times for citizens besides acting as a facilitator for businesses,” he said.

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President rule in Telagana to be revoked on June 2; to continue in Andhra Pradesh

New Delhi: The President's rule imposed in united Andhra Pradesh on June 2 will be revoked partially to facilitate the swearing-in of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao as

Chief Minister of Telangana but it will continue in Seemandhra till TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu takes charge a week later.

Hectic activities have been going on in the Union Home Ministry and in Andhra Pradesh government for division of the state smoothly on June 2, the appointed day, official sources said.

A notification is expected to be issued in the morning of June 2 revoking the President's rule in Telangana to facilitate Rao taking charge as the first Chief Minister of the country's 29th state.

The notification will clarify that the President's rule will continue in residuary Andhra Pradesh till Naidu takes oath as Chief Minister either on June 8 or 9, official sources said.

President's Rule was imposed in Andhra Pradesh on March 1 this year after N Kiran Kumar Reddy resigned as Chief Minister following Parliament's nod for bifurcation of the state to create separate Telangana.

Rao's party Telangana Rashtra Samiti won 63 out of the the 119 assembly seats in Telangana in the recent elections while Nadu's Telugu Desam Party, along with ally BJP, bagged 106 of the 175 assembly seats in Seemandhra.

Sources said that before Rao is sworn-in as chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan, who was given the additional charge of the proposed state of Telangana, will himself have to take oath.

Naidu will take oath as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on June 8.

"I will take oath on June 8 between Vijayawada and Guntur. We will organise three important conferences of the party in the three regions of the state soon," Naidu announced at the valedictory session of TDP's two-day annual conclave Mahanadu on Wednesday.

The "muhurtam" for the ceremony has been fixed for 11.45 am on June 8.

An open ground opposite Acharya Nagarjuna University is likely to be the venue of Naidu's swearing-in ceremony, party sources said.

The Telugu Desam Legislature Party meeting will be held in Tirupati, they said.

Chandrababu has already announced that he will operate from the new state only and not Hyderabad, though the city will remain the common capital of AP and Telangana post bifurcation.

He is expected to set up his office temporarily in the Acharya Nagarjuna University campus between Vijayawada and Guntur, given its easy accessibility from various parts of the state.

However, part of the new state government's functioning will also continue from the Secretariat in Hyderabad since relocating the staff en masse will be a difficult exercise due to lack of infrastructure, according to sources.

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Telangana TDP leaders keep low profile

The Mahanadu meeting of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which commenced on Tuesday, was a picture of contrast with the party men from Seemandhra bubbling with enthusiasm, while their counterparts from Telangana visibly subdued with uncertainty looming large over their future.

There were many pointers to the passive approach of the ‘Telugu tammullu’ (Telugu brothers) from Telangana as the leaders who used to be seen all over were either invisible or sparsely visible on and off the dais. Party sources stated that there was very poor registration of delegates from Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad.

There were just 100 registrations from Karimnagar till lunch time, it was stated.

Lack of visibility

Besides, senior leaders such as Tummala Nageswara Rao, Mandava Venkateswara Rao, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy, A. Revanth Reddy and others were hardly visible, while Errabelli Dayakar Rao was seen sitting quiet all through.

However, during the debate on the resolution on the party’s electoral success in general, municipal and rural local bodies’ elections MLA-elect from Narayanpet in Mahabubnagar, S. Rajender Reddy, said that the party’s failure to provide ample opportunities to youth to contest the general elections had taken a toll on its performance in Telangana.

Naidu should have contested from ‘T’

He felt that the party could have fared better in Telangana had its chief N. Chandrababu Naidu contested from the region.

There was little cheer from the delegates of the region even when Mr. Naidu tried to give a pep talk stating that he would stay in Telangana till he brought the TDP to power and that there were more party men in Telangana than in Seemandhra who could sacrifice for him.

The party also adopted a resolution to work for making the country corruption-free and suggested inclusion of corruption in the syllabus from the school level. It further wanted a debate on the issue countrywide.

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Telangana gets 'iconic' logo

Hyderabad: Telangana, the 29th state of India will have a new unique logo, according to a report in India Today.

The two iconic monuments, the Kakatiya Kala Thoranam and the Charminar are inscribed in the logo, apart from the Ashoka emblem.

The logo is set to appear first on the invitation for the swearing-in ceremony of K Chandrasekhar Rao on June 2. That day will mark the birth of the new state Telangana.

According to the report, KCR will first lay a wreath at the Martyrs Memorial to commemorate those who lost their lives in demand for a separate state.

Chandrsekhar Rao will then drive to Raj Bhavan for the swearing in ceremony at 8.15am.

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Telangana and Andhra Pradesh seek exemption from fiscal target

Hyderabad: To overcome the financial crisis emerging out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the state government has urged the Centre to grant a two-year exemption from implementing the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 (FRBMA) in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

A team of senior officers from the Finance department are also leaving for Delhi to seek Rs 13,000 crore grants from the Centre to overcome the revenue deficit in the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh.

The officials will also urge the Centre to waive off the Rs1,000 crore loan and other payments to be made by the state to the Centre as these loans and other charges towards sending CRPF and CISF battalions to the state were accrued by a united AP, and post bifurcation neither of the states will be fiscally fit to pay them back.

“Earlier too, the central government has given such waivers to states like Bihar and Punjab. The need of the hour is to extend the waiver to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana,” a senior official said.
Officials said exemption for a couple of years from FRBMA was also crucial. FRBMA is aimed at eliminating revenue deficit, build up revenue surplus and contain fiscal deficit and debts.

Officials of the finance department have brought to the notice of the Centre that both the states will be under heavy financial constraints; the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh especially will start with a huge deficit budget and neither of the states will be in a position to meet the fiscal targets laid out under FRBMA.

They pointed out that the states will be forced to secure huge loans from various agencies to meet the budgetary deficit after June 2. State finance department officials have already held a series of meetings with Union finance ministry officials over the issue.

The Union finance ministry is expected to refer the issue to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and take a final decision before June 2.
Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan has recently approved the expenditure fund of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with a budget of Rs 34,595 crore and Rs 26,516 crore respectively for a period of four months from June 2.

The division of budget was based on the vote-on-account budget approved by the Assembly of the united state in March this year. The new governments will have to table full-scale budgets for the remaining period from October to March after assuming charge.

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Mixed reaction within Congress as Nawaz Sharif accepts Narendra Modi invite

NEW DELHI: Reactions in Congress varied from caution to commendation on Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi's invitation to Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif to attend his oath-taking ceremony, which the latter accepted today. 

While senior leader DigvijayBSE 4.50 % Singh hailed the decision to invite Sharif as a "positive change in Modi" compared to the "quite contrary" things he had been saying earlier, Congress spokesperson Shashi Tharoor said that the party feels that there is "no basis for substantive talks" at the moment between the two countries. 

Further, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed said that photo opportunities are okay, but in the euphoria of coronation, Modi should not compromise national interest. 

Outgoing Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, for his part, reminded that BJP has all along maintained that terror and talks cannot go together. 

"It's a very positive thing and he (Modi) has only followed the policy which was enunciated from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, although he has been talking quite contrary to what he has done now. Therefore, I think it is a positive change in Modi," Singh said. 

Tharoor, who was earlier a Minister of State for External Affairs, however, had a word of caution to offer. 

"As far as Congress is concerned, all we have said is that there is a consensual position on the question of why we have not been inviting Nawaz Sharif or former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to Delhi since 26/11. Nor have we sent our Prime Minister there. And that position has been related to 26/11 and the horrors of that terror attack," Tharoor said. 

He said India has maintained that until its minimum demands for progress in pursuing, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators and accomplices behind 26/11 are not met or unless steps are taken to dismantle the infrastructure for carrying out terror attacks on India and Indian interests in , "there is no basis for substantive talks". 

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Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif arrives tomorrow, bilateral talks on Tuesday

Ending the suspense, Pakistan on Saturday confirmed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on May 26.

Sharif will arrive in Delhi on Monday, accompanied by his Advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi and Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry among others.

The day after the swearing-in, Modi will hold separate bilateral meetings with Sharif and other visiting heads of the SAARC countries. In a positive gesture, Islamabad also conveyed to New Delhi that about 150 Indian prisoners lodged in Pakistan’s jails will be freed on May 26.

“According to the programme received from India, the Prime Minister will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi on the morning of May 27. The Prime Minister would also call on the President of India. The Prime Minister would return to Pakistan in the afternoon of May 27, 2014,” said a statement released by the Pakistan Foreign Office.

The announcement on Saturday came after two days of deliberations within Pakistan’s establishment — political, military and bureaucracy. Significantly, Sharif’s brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met Pakistan Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif for about half-an-hour on Friday night and conveyed to him the importance of the visit to India, PML-N sources told PTI in Islamabad.

As reported by The Indian Express on Saturday, the diplomatic advice rendered to Sharif — by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and the foreign office in Islamabad — recommended that he should undertake the visit for the sake of improving bilateral relations.

Seeming to set the tone for his visit, Sharif’s daughter, Maryam, tweeted on Saturday, “Aggression is easy to start but difficult to end… Brutality & force are tools of the immoral… #pakindiarelations. Leaders are not captives of past”. To a question on Kashmir, she tweeted, “Dialogue, not force, is the answer. As I said, aggression breeds aggression.”

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley signalled that the gathering of these foreign leaders should not be seen through the “prism of bilateral issues”. “The invitation to all leaders of SAARC nations to be present at the ceremony is to showcase Indian democracy and its strength to the world at large. It is a democracy event. It should not be viewed through the prism of bilateral issues between countries. While celebrating the success of India’s democracy, the fact that our neighbours, through their leaders, will be represented re-affirms India’s faith in both democracy and greater integration of the region,” he said.

With Sharif’s confirmation, MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin noted that all the leaders of SAARC countries and Mauritius have confirmed their participation. While Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhary and Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay will be arriving on Sunday, the others are expected on Monday, hours before the ceremony.

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