::Delhi's option 7 for Telangana::

Sri Krishna Committee’s six options have not met with any consensus among political parties in A.P. So the UPA government in Delhi has now set its direction on implementing a new option – it calls it Option Seven. According to the Tehelka story filed by Raman Kirpal, the highlights are outlined as under:
1. Chief Ministership or Deputy Chief Ministership to a politician who has been elected from the Telangana region
2. Key ministerial posts for representatives elected from Telangana
3. Establishment of a statutory and empowered TRC with adequate transfer of funds, functions, and functionaries
4. Appointing an MLA as chairman of the TRC with the rank and status of a Cabinet minister
5. Separate secretariat for the council headed by an officer of the level of additional chief secretary
6. Formation of an apex committee headed by the governor to settle legislative disputes, if any, between the TRC and the AP government
7. Constitutional amendment as early as March to form the TRC, provided there is consensus on the seventh option
8. Freedom to the council and the people of Telangana to review the TRC’s relevance after 15 months
9. Freedom to the people of Telangana to develop the region on the lines of coastal Andhra, by letting the TRC continue
10. Freedom to the council and the people of Telangana to bifurcate into the states of Telangana and Seemandhra, should they be unhappy with the TRC’s work
11. Assurance from the Congress leadership to make Hyderabad the capital of a Telangana state and develop a new capital for Seemandhra, in such an eventuality