New Delhi:The much-talked about Committee to
examine the demand for separate Telangana will be announced
next week, Home Minister P Chidamabaram said on Thursday.
"We are almost at the end of concluding that exercise. If
all goes well, we should have a committee by the end of this
week. We will announce the committee by next week," he told
reporters declining to give out the names.
The Home Minister said the government would have more or
less finalised the names and will do by the the end of this
week. "Perhaps by the next week, the committee will be
announced," he said.
Chidambaram in the meeting with political parties from
Andhra Pradesh on January 5 had said that its agenda was to
"deliberate on the mechanism and lay down a road map for
consultations" on the Telangana issue.
The meeting followed Chidambaram's statement on December
23, 2009 when the government put on back burner the formation
of the separate state for which it had promised to initiate the process on December 9, 2009.
On law and order situation in Andhra Pradesh, the Home
Minister said much of the agitation has cooled down while
there are some protests here and there.
"My greatest regret is that a couple of students
reportedly committed suicide. That, I think, should have been
completely avoided. Why should children commit suicide.
Parents & teachers have responsibility to stop this. But
keeping that apart, by and large, things are peaceful there.
There is no major law and order violation. We are sticking to
our words," he said.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 16:15