Hyderabad, Apr 23: A delegation of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) today appeared before the Srikrishna committee constituted by the Centre to study the 'situation' in Andhra Pradesh in the wake of strident demand for separate Telangana and pressed for keeping the state united.The delegation led by CPI(M) State Secretary B V Raghavulu argued that development would be affected in the event of bifurcation of the state. This could be very much evident when three new states were created by the then BJP-led National Democratic Front government at the Centre, he said.The party was also against redrawing the map of the country drawn on linguisitic basis in 1956. Any attempt to meddle with the present map of the country would only amount to opening of the pandora's box, Mr Raghavulu told mediapersons ahead of appearing before the Committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna.Differing with the CPI(M), the CPI had yesterday argued for creation of separate Telangana state. The party after an elaborate discussion within the party had given up its ''Vishalandhra'' (united Andhra Pradesh) stand in favour of smaller Telangana state. It rooted for separate state to address the issue of socio-economic backwardness in the Telangana region.The panel had already started its job of eliciting the views of cross-section of the people with its members Ravinder Kaur and Abusaleh Shariff, extensively touring the Telangana and Rayalseema regions.
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