The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
After
long procrastination and more than two years after the report submitted
by the Srikrishna Committee, the Congress leadership and the UPA
government have decided on the division of Andhra Pradesh and the
formation of Telangana state. This decision seems to have been impelled
by the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. It will give a fillip to demands
for separate states in other places.
The CPI(M) has always stood for the integrity of the states based on the democratic principle of linguistic states.
The issue of the formation of Telangana will now have to be decided by parliament.
The
Polit Bureau appeals to the people of all regions of the state to
maintain peace and harmony while the matter is ultimately decided by
parliament.
B.V. Raghavulu, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee of the CP(M) has issued the following statement:
For
the last three and half years Andhra Pradesh state has been in throes
of uncertainty and confusion because of the opportunism of Congress
party on the issue of forming of separate Telangana. It is a welcome
development that at last the Congress party that is ruling both at
centre and in the state has finally taken a clear stand on the Telangana
issue. We request other parties that are speaking in double voices in
both regions to at least now come out with clear statement on the issue.
Political
parties should prepare to take a decision as per their respective
stands in the highest forum in parliamentary democracy, Parliament,
without giving any scope to rouse mutual hatred or animosities.
