TRS calls bandh as Centre puts Telangana on hold

Thursday - Dec 24, 2009, 10:37pm (GMT+5.5)

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Andhra Pradesh is back on the boil. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), which is spearheading the movement for a separate state of Telangana, has called a 48-hour bandh from Thursday to protest what appears to be a move by the Centre to put the statehood issue on the backburner. Home Minister P Chidambaram made a brief statement on Wednesday night saying wide-ranging consultations would be held on the issue as a large number of parties are sharply divided on it. Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chadrasekhar Rao, or KCR as he's known, condemned the Centre's stand on Telangana statehood on Wednesday, saying that the Government had "betrayed" pro-Telangana groups.

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