Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao said that he was scheduled to meet his Nationalist Congress Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal counterparts Sharad Pawar and Lalu Prasad and other national leaders in New Delhi in the next few days to seek their support for the Bill in Parliament on a separate Telangana. Talking to mediapersons on Sunday before leaving for New Delhi to attend the meeting convened by the Union Home Ministry with political parties from the State on the Telangana issue, Mr. Rao said he hoped to call on Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan and Parliamentary Party Leader Gurudas Dasgupta. These would be courtesy calls on them since they had appealed to him to withdraw his hunger strike last month.
Mr. Rao asked the government to stick to its promise of conceding the demand for a separate Telangana. He warned that the “true colours” of the parties that opposed the demand would be exposed at the meeting.
The TRS chief said the party would file a contempt case in the High Court on Monday against the State government for preventing students from attending the rally on Osmania University campus. Over one lakh students who were held back by police staged a ‘rasta roko’ or cooked on the roads in protest. The party had CDs and photos of the scenes and they would be submitted to the court, he added.
He demanded that the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah and Director-General of Police R.R. Girish Kumar tender an unconditional apology to the students. Mr. Rao who left for New Delhi with former academic K. Jayashankar said they would be joined by other party leaders on Monday.
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