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NTR's widow arrested for hunger strike in Hyderabad |
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Sunday, 13 December 2009 |
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New Delhi: Hyderabad Police on Sunday arrested Lakshmi Parvathi, the widow of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister NT Rama Rao, after she launched a one-day hunger strike to protest the proposed division of the state.
Police have already imposed prohibitory orders in the city to maintain law and order in view of the continuing mass protests in parts of the state.
Talking to reporters, Lakshmi Parvathi demanded that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu apologise to the people of the state for agreeing to its division.
She said by supporting the division of the state, Naidu had hurt the sentiments of the people. She recalled that TDP founder NTR always stood for a united state of all Telugu speaking people.
Lakshmi Parvathi, who went into political oblivion after the death of NTR in 1996, alleged that Tamil Nadu was behind the conspiracy to divide Andhra Pradesh.
"They want to settle scores with Andhra for walking out of then Madras state," she said.
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3 Cong MPs resign to protest creation of Telangana state |
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Friday, 11 December 2009 |
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New Delhi: Reacting sharply to the Congress' decision to initiate a process to create a separate of state Telangana, three Congress MPs understood to have resigned from the primary membership of the party.
After the Congress accepted the TRS demand for creation of Telangana state, three Congress MPs submitted their resignation, out of which one was submitted to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh and the other two to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh said.
The leader also said the MPs had met Ms Gandhi to convey their anguish over the party succumbing to TRS pressure.
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Telangana would be the 29th State of India |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
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The Centre tonight conceded to the demand for a separate
Telangana state for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate
resolution moved in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. When it happens, Telangana would be the 29th State of India. No decision has been taken on the fate of Hyderabad city. It is not clear whether it would be merged with Telangana or the Centre would follow the example of Chandigarh and make it a union terriory and a joint capital of both Telangana and Andhra.
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