SENIOR Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, has said in the Parliament that her party cannot run away with its responsibility on the sensitive issue of Telangana, and as a responsible opposition it was her obligation to see that no injustice is meted out to the people of Telangana who have been struggling since long to get their separate state.

Sushma Swaraj criticized the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for not getting serious on the issue. She said when Srikrishna report was tabled the government had assured the people of the region that an appropriate action would be initiated in the matter after making ‘consensus’ on the issue, but unfortunately that consensus never happened, and the government kept on shelving the issue for reasons better known to them.

She even quoted the statement of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on Telangana; she said a statement by the then Prime Minister Late Pt Nehru appeared in the Indian Express issue of the year 1956, “he was skeptical of merging Telangana with Andhra State, fearing a "tint of expansionist imperialism" in it. He compared the merger to a matrimonial alliance having ‘provisions for divorce’ if the partners in the alliance cannot get on well in future.”

Andhra state assembly passed a resolution on 25 November 1955 to provide safeguards to Telangana.

Then an agreement was reached between Telangana leaders and Andhra leaders on 20 February 1956 to merge Telangana and Andhra with promises to safeguard Telangana's interests.

Sushma Swaraj said, “On 9th December, 2009, Union Minister of Home Affairs P Chidambaram had announced that the Indian government would start the process of forming a separate Telangana state, pending the introduction and passage of a separation resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly. KCR ended his 11-day fast, saying from his hospital bed that this was a "true victory of the people of Telangana."

She said that her party was and will always be there with the people of Telangana, and that she would see the dreams of million of people living in the Telangana region get fulfilled at the earliest.