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Shiv Shankar holds talks with Dattatreya

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, APRIL 11. The former Union Minister, P. Shiv Shankar, who recently resigned from the Congress, had a 30-minute long closed door meeting with the senior BJP leader and Union Minister for Urban Development, Bandaru Dattatreya on Sunday. Neither disclosed the details of the discussion. They said they had run into each other at a gathering of leaders from the Munnur Kapu community, convened over a lunch hosted by a Congress leader, P. L. Srinivas, at his residence in Mahendra Hills here.

Apart from Mr. Dattatreya, who is seeking re-election for the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat, five Assembly candidates of the BJP-TDP combine and several dissident Congress leaders, attended the luncheon meeting. They included BJP nominees K. Laxman (Mushirabad) and Baddam Bal Reddy (Karwan) and the TDP candidates for Asifnagar, Sanathnagar and Secunderabad, D. Nagender, Sripathi Rajeshwar and T. Srinivas Yadav.

Sources said that the meeting was aimed at declaring the support of the Backward Classes, particularly the Munnur Kapus, to the BJP-TDP combine and strengthen the friendly parties in the run-up to the elections.

What was noteworthy about the meeting was that it was convened by a disgruntled Congress leader and attended by Mr. Shiv Shankar, a senior Congress leader who felt aggrieved. It is learnt that Sunday's meeting could be a prelude to yet another group of middle-level Congress leaders defecting to the TDP.

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