29.1.13

Embarassment for Chidu , Shinde


In an embarrassment for the Congress, a court in Ranga Reddy district of Greater Hyderabad directed police to investigate whether the former and current Union home ministers P Chidambaram and Sushilkumar Shinde had cheated the people of Telangana by giving assurances on the separate state demand and then backtracking on it.
Based on a petition filed by the Telangana Junior Advocates Association, the court asked police to probe the matter and submit a status report by February 14.
Petitioner Naresh Kumar, president of the advocates association, said that statements of Chidambaram and Shinde on Telangana had both raised and dashed hopes of the people, and sought the court’s directions to refer the matter to police for probe under section 420 of IPC.
Accordingly, the second metropolitan magistrate court directed the L B Nagar police to investigate the matter and file a status report before it by February 14. “To investigate the matter, the police will have to first register a cheating case against the two Congress leaders,” Naresh Kumar said.
Chidambaram was called to account for his statement on December 9, 2009 as Union home minister, when he had announced that the Centre was initiating the process for the creation of Telangana.
However, on December 23, 2009 Chidambaram took back his statement following an agitation in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions against the division. The petitioner said this was an uncalled for volte-face aimed at cheating the people.
Shinde was charged with cheating for assuring the Telangana people after the all-party meeting on December 28, 2012 that a decision on the separate state demand would be taken within a month, only for the Congress to annul the deadline on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Cyberabad police commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao said they have yet to receive the court orders in this regard. Asked if the police would lodge any case against the Union ministers, the senior police officer said, “We have to first go through the order copy and act accordingly.”

Hyderabad and the other Telangana districts continued to reverberate with protests and preventive arrests even as the Samara Deeksha held by the pro-Telangana outfits vowed to step up the agitation in view of the Congress-led UPA government opting to keep on dithering on the issue.
The Telangana leaders, including TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao said the agitations would include blocking the national and state highways linking Telangana to the other two regions and issued an ultimatum to the Congress elected representatives from the region, including ministers to immediately quit their posts and the party or face the wrath of the Telangana people.
The T-JAC called upon people to boycott Congress leaders from the region. However, the T Congress MPs and ministers took divergent views with the former threatening to send their resignation letters to party president Sonia Gandhi and the latter reposing their faith on the Congress chief and refusing to quit.

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