Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Forbes India - Telangana: Divided We Stand

Forbes India - Telangana: Divided We Stand: "Now that the Srikrishna Committee on Telangana has completed its job, it is for the Union government and the political process to take a call on the situation in Andhra Pradesh.

Although the committee talked about six options, four of them were set up by it as dummies to be shot down. The five-member body clearly put its weight behind the option of keeping the state united. However, it recommended that some constitutional and statutory measures be put in place to allay the apprehensions in the minds of the people of Telangana region. It recommended the bifurcation of the state only if it is ‘unavoidable’. While agitators for a separate Telangana unequivocally rejected the recommendations, ‘integrationists’ from the coastal region expressed happiness over them."

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