City ministers want Hyderabad as UT

Ministers Mr Danam Nagender and Mr Mukesh Gowd alongwith five MLAs from the city have urged the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to make the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area a Union Territory in the event Telangana is given statehood.
They said Hyderabad, being the fifth largest city in the country with a population of more than 80 lakh, has acquired a cosmopolitan character with people from across the country settled here.
The ministers said the demographic profile of the city has changed tremendously over the years. They also brought to her notice that during the 2009 general elections, people voted out the Telugu Desam-TRS Mahakutami due to their separatist policies.
In another development, Congress MLAs from Telangana region have petitioned to the Congress president urging her to consider the separate statehood issue immediately.
The former home minister, Mr K. Janareddy, the former IT minister, Mr R. Damodar Reddy, and 27 Congress MLAs from the Telangana region on Wednesday faxed a representation to the Congress president stating that the first State Reorganisation Commission had favoured separate statehood for Telangana.
They said almost all sections of society, whether it be government employees, students or intellectuals, are actively participating in street agitations throughout the Telangana region for separate state.