Srikrishna panel extends the deadline to April 10

The Srikrishna Panel after its  third meeting  here announced that it would be extending the deadline for taking the views of the political leaders and parties from 23rd of  this month to April 10th. According to the panel, the extension has been made at the request of some political leaders and parties.

According to the  spokesman  of the committee,  any political party or leader can submit his or her views as many times as they like. Indirectly referring to Lagadapati Rajagopal, the  Congress MP  from Vijayawada, who submitted his opinions three times so far. The MP is likely  to submit another report in a  couple of days.  

Speaking to the media, Member-Secretary V.K. Duggal told that the committee had so far received as many as 11,000 petitions from political parties, various stakeholders, groups, intellectuals and the general public.

Most of the views were crisp either for or against separate Telangana,  but there were some petitions which were comprehensive with background, statistics, history among other things.