Justice Srikrishna Committee Submitted Report

Justice Srikrishna Committee submitted its report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on 30 December 2010. A five member, Srikrishna committe on Telangana was constituted with Justice B N Srikrishna also known as Justice Srikrishna as the chairman of the committee on 3 February 2010. The committee also constituted- Vinod Duggal (former Union Home Secretary), Ravindar Kaur (professor at IIT Delhi), Abusaleh Sharif (Ph.D is a Senior Research Fellow at the New Delhi Office of International Food Policy Research Institute) and Dr Ranbir Singh (Vice-Chancellor - National Law University). Justice Sri Krishna committee was formed to look into the demand for separate telangana state issue in Andhra Predesh. The Home Ministry will take decision in this respect after the details of the report is presented on 6 January 2011.

The Committee was expected to submit its report based on its observation on the demand for the bifurcation of state of Andhra Pradesh and formation of Telangana. The agitations for and against the division of Andhra Pradesh began in December 2009 and stretched into the first half of 2010. The agitation paralysed the state administration and left the main political parties in shambles.

Folowing the submission of the report heavy security was deployed in Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Medak and Nizamabad districts in Telangana, and Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam city in Coastal Andhra. Telangana Joint Action Committees comprising students and local political leaders have threatened to start indefinite hunger strikes and launch agitations across the region if the Centre delays a decision. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti on the other hand demanded that irrespective of the report’s contents the Centre must table a Bill in Parliament to create a separate state.