HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday arrived in Delhi, his maiden visit to the capital city after taking charge of the new state. Armed with a long list of demands including withdrawal of the controversial ordinance on Polavaram, KCR is slated to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday afternoon.
MP AP Jitender Reddy, TRS floor leader in the Lok Sabha, told TOI that KCR would meet Union ministers including Ravishankar Prasad and Rajnath Singh on Saturday morning while meetings with Modi and Mukherjee were scheduled in the afternoon
"While it is a courtesy call ahead of the Telangana state Assembly session scheduled to commence on June 9, KCR is likely to take up some important issues with the PM including the ordinance promulgated to transfer 205 villages from Telangana to Seemandhra related to the Polavaram irrigation project," said Jitender Reddy.
Among the demands KCR is likely to put forth before the Centre are imparting special category status to Telangana on par with Seemandhra and allocation of adequate funds for the development of the new state. The CM would demand the Centre to expedite the process of inaugurating a tribal university and horticulture university sanctioned to Telangana as part of the bifurcation deal. Among the other demands are establishment of a steel plant in Khammam within six months from the appointed day of Telangana (June 2) and a railway coach factory in Medak district, both were listed in the AP State Reorganisation Act.
Generation of additional 4,000 mw power from NTPC, road connectivity between Hyderabad and other major towns in the state and granting of Greyhounds security force for Telangana are among the other demands of KCR.
AP chief minister-designate Chandrababu Naidu has invited KCR to his swearing in ceremony to be held in Guntur district on Sunday, but according to TRS sources, KCR may skip the event.
Among the demands KCR is likely to put forth before the Centre are imparting special category status to Telangana on par with Seemandhra and allocation of adequate funds for the development of the new state.
MP AP Jitender Reddy, TRS floor leader in the Lok Sabha, told TOI that KCR would meet Union ministers including Ravishankar Prasad and Rajnath Singh on Saturday morning while meetings with Modi and Mukherjee were scheduled in the afternoon
"While it is a courtesy call ahead of the Telangana state Assembly session scheduled to commence on June 9, KCR is likely to take up some important issues with the PM including the ordinance promulgated to transfer 205 villages from Telangana to Seemandhra related to the Polavaram irrigation project," said Jitender Reddy.
Among the demands KCR is likely to put forth before the Centre are imparting special category status to Telangana on par with Seemandhra and allocation of adequate funds for the development of the new state. The CM would demand the Centre to expedite the process of inaugurating a tribal university and horticulture university sanctioned to Telangana as part of the bifurcation deal. Among the other demands are establishment of a steel plant in Khammam within six months from the appointed day of Telangana (June 2) and a railway coach factory in Medak district, both were listed in the AP State Reorganisation Act.
Generation of additional 4,000 mw power from NTPC, road connectivity between Hyderabad and other major towns in the state and granting of Greyhounds security force for Telangana are among the other demands of KCR.
AP chief minister-designate Chandrababu Naidu has invited KCR to his swearing in ceremony to be held in Guntur district on Sunday, but according to TRS sources, KCR may skip the event.
Among the demands KCR is likely to put forth before the Centre are imparting special category status to Telangana on par with Seemandhra and allocation of adequate funds for the development of the new state.
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