Congress MPs From Telangana Oppose T-council

While TRS, TDP and TJAC back home are busy in formulating strategies for the upcoming bypolls, the Congress MPs from Telangana region are trying to remind the people of their existence by still harping on the separate state demand. The T-cong MPs urged party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to desist from setting up a regional development council for Telangana in lieu of granting the separate state.

Nine Lok Sabha MPs, Madhu Yaskhi Goud, Manda Jagannatham, Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar, S Rajaiah, T Balram Naik, Komati Reddy Rajagopal Reddy, Suresh Shetkar and Rajya Sabha MP K Keshava Rao met Sonia and presented a memorandum to this effect. The members also met the Prime Minister, AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sonia's political secretary Ahmed Patel and told them that anything short of a separate Telangana would not be acceptable to the people of the region.

The two-page memorandum presented to the party president was clearly critical of the move to appoint the council and cautioned the party against antagonizing the people of the region with such worn-out experiments. The MPs, who have been aggressive on the T-issue, took the step amid reports that the party high command was toying with the idea of setting up a developmental council for the region on the lines of the one appointed for Gorkhaland in West Bengal. Earlier, the MPs staged a walk out of Lok Sabha against the delay in taking a decision on Telangana and attempts to appoint a council.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.