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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced the schedule for the General Elections (GE) to the legislative assembly of Jharkhand (to be held in five phases). Keeping in view the due expiry of the term of the legislative assembly on 18th January 2009, the ECI has come up with the election dates for 81 assembly constituencies (ACs). The polling would begin on 25th November 2009 (for phase 1) and end on 18th December 2009 (for phase 5). The counting for all five phases would take place on 23rd December 2009. The current election would be held as per the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000.

93 AP MLAs, 5 MPs quit for Samikhaya Andhra

The number of Congress MPs to resign to protest against the Centre's decision to carve out a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh has gone up to three, while 93 MLAs from Congress (53), Telugu Desam Party (29) and Praja Rajyam (11) have also resigned. Two TDP MPs have also submitted their resignation.

However, Chief Minister K Rosaiah urged the MLAs not to act in panic as there was no need for them to become worried. He reminded the legislators that the assembly can pass a resolution on Telangana only if it has the support of the majority of the people. He asked the people not to believe that something has gone wrong.

He was reacting to the reports that the student's organisations have called for a strike in Andhra and Rayalaseema region on Friday.

Interestingly, Andhra Pradesh Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who received the resignations from dozens of MLAs from Andhra and Rayalaseema region throughout the day, was himself toying with the idea of submitting his resignation.

Reddy, who hails from Chittoor district in Rayalaseema region, was also not happy with the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh to form separate Telangana state.

If he does so, it will further compound the political crisis in the state, as the state legislative assembly is currently in session.

Hyderabad will be capital of Telangana state: TRS chief‎

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Saturday asserted that  Hyderabad would be the capital of the proposed Telangana state, and rejected suggestions of making it a shared capital with Andhra Pradesh. 

Rao, whose 11-day hunger strike forced the central government to agree to the demand for a Telangana state, told TV news channel that Hyderabad cannot be made a joint capital on the lines of Chandigarh.

KCR, as Rao is popularly known, said: "Hyderabad can't be compared with Chandigarh. It is not a new bifurcation. Telangana state existed earlier with Hyderabad as capital while Andhra state had Kurnool as its capital."

KCR also pointed out that Hyderabad is geographically located in Telangana. "How can they (Andhra) claim Hyderabad. Does it make any sense?" he asked. 

Hyderabad Under Section 144 For 48 Hrs,Telangana Issue

RAF deployed in Hyderabad, Section 144 in city for 48 hours: City Police

Prohibitory orders were clamped as students and Telangana activists went on a rampage, attacking private properties in Ameerpet and Punjagutta areas in the vicinity of the Nizam Institute ofMedical Sciences (NIMS), where TRS President K Chandrasekhara Rao was hospitalised and shifted to Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU).
Mr Rao’s fast-unto-death demanding separate Telangana state entered the seventh day today.
Amid lathicharge to stop protestors from attacking malls in Ameerpet, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao ordered enforcement of Section 144, prohibiting assembly of more than five persons.
Prohibitory orders were also clamped in the city and private channels decided to stop telecasting Telanga news from 1700 hrs today.