Some People Wanted Me Not To Recover: Rosaiah

          Chief Minister K Rosaiah seems to be suspecting that some leaders within the Congress and outside strongly desired that he should not recover from viral fever.
                After a gap of nearly two weeks, Rosaiah addressed a full-fledged press conference at Secretariat on Tuesday. Though he appeared very weak and his hands were trembling while handling papers, he was smiling all through the press meet and was at his usual self with witty remarks.
                When a media person enquired about his health, Rosaiah said: “I am trying to become normal.” Then he made the sarcastic remark saying there were alarming reports about his health in a section of media and some leaders were talking about his dwindling health. “The fever is no more and my health parameters are normal. I heard that some people were expressing doubts about my recovery. Perhaps, they desired that I should not recover,” he said.
           The reporters wondered whom he was referring to. Perhaps, he was talking about some leaders who made a beeline to New Delhi and projected an alarming picture about his health, so that they would stand a chance in replacing him!

Central Package To Douse Telangana Stir?

             If Chief Minister K Rosaiah’s statement is any indication, the Centre may settle the Telangana issue by announcing a hefty development and welfare package after the Srikrishna Committee submits its report.
            Addressing the national executive meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICC) representatives on Tuesday, Rosaiah said that the demand for separate Telangana state was not new. “Earlier also there was this demand. There were agitations but ultimately the government of India announced a package and kept the state united. The same thing might happen this time,” he said.
           The chief minister was reacting to the apprehensions expressed by a few industrialists over disturbances to investment climate in Andhra Pradesh in the wake of renewed agitation for Telangana state. They pointed out to the statements of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao that there would be massive unrest among the people of the region after December 31, when Justice B N Srikrishna Committee submitted its report to the Centre on the contentious Telangana issue. Rosaiah said steps would be taken to ensure that the agitation for a separate Telangana state did not come in the way of development. “You need not entertain any sort of doubts. Our government was always prepared to extend all support to the industry. We stand by industry,” he said.
             He pointed out that his government provided protection to IT/ITES sector in Hyderabad and Visakhaptanam when some of the firms were planning to shift their operations out of the state due to the agitation early this year.
             Rosaiah said the government of India would take a decision in the larger interest of the country after receipt of the report of the Srikrishna Committee, which it constituted to study the problem and look into different angles. “The government of India after listing to various sections and after conducting a through study through Srikrishna Committee will take a decision. Everyone must respect the final decision of the government of India,” he said.