Srikrishna committee's secret report shameful: KCR

Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao has described the 'secret report' of the Srikrishna committee as shameful and demanded that it should be made public immediately.

Addressing a massive public meeting in Banswada, organised to mark the entry of Telugu Desam MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy into the TRS, Chandrasekhar Rao said that it was unbecoming of a high court judge to submit a report recommending how to crush a democratic movement for a separate Telangana state.

"We thought he will do justice. But what he did was shameful", he said. Rao waved the copy of the 'secret report' at the public meeting claiming that it contains recommendations like use of force on the students to crush the Telangana movement and deployment of forces and management of media.

Rao's comments came hours after the Andhra Pradesh high court directed the Central government to disclose the 'Chapter 8' of the Srikrishna committee report which was held back by the Union home ministry on the ground that it deals with the sensitive law and order situation in Telangana.

Rao asserted that such acts will not affect the Telangana movement or the morale of the people.

Referring to the parochial role of the Andhra-controlled media in Andhra Pradesh,  Rao said that except two channels -- Raj News (owned by TRS) and HmTV -- all the channels, and Telugu newspapers were opposing Telangana.

KCR announced that in place of Raj News a new channel T-News will be launched from March 29 and 'Namaste Telangana,' a Telugu daily will be launched in early April to give voice to the people of the region.

He also announced that he will launch a Urdu newspaper 'Rahbar-e-Telangana' soon to fill the gap in Telangana media.

Rao lashed out at the media saying they were trying to create confusion among the people by spreading false rumours of TRS merging with the Congress.

"They were carrying such stories despite our strong denial to create confusion", he said urging the people not to get carried away by such reports.

"We don't have any such proposal before us. No body has spoken to me. TRS will remain even after the formation of Telangana state", he said.

Welcoming Pocharam Srinivas Reddy into the TRS fold, Chandrasekhar Rao told the people of Banswada assembly constituency that they should ensure the victory of Reddy with the biggest ever margin in the by election and create a record.

"You have been given an opportunity to tell the world that you want Telangana state", he said.

Former minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy tendered his resignation from the TDP as well as assembly on Wednesday to joint the TRS. He said he was forced to quit the TDP because of the double speak of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu on the issue of Telangana.

He brought almost entire Telugu Desam including all the members of zilla parishad and mandal parishads, sarpanches and elected representatives into the TRS.