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`Separate Telangana inevitable if Congress-TRS forms Government'

By Our Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM, MAY 7. The former Minister, Bhattam Srirama Murthy, feels that separation of the State would become inevitable if the Congress-Telangana Rashtra Samithi combine gets a majority in the Assembly.

The TRS was founded with the objective of achieving Statehood for Telangana. The Congress too committed itself to the first States Reorganisation Commission which had categorically accepted a separate State for Telangana. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) had asked for the second SRC only to consider similar demands coming up in different parts of the country.

As the Congress had committed itself to first SRC, it had no option but take steps for separation of the State if it got majority along with TRS, he felt.

But the Congress leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, stated that the party would abide by first SRC but later changed the tack saying that it would abide by the second SRC. Separatist agitations were waged in Telangana in 1969 and in Andhra in 1971 with popular support from the people.

The urge for separatism had been hanging fire since then in both the regions and so it would be better to honour the wishes of the people and get separated in true democratic spirit, he felt. "If the Congress and TRS win the election, it should be considered as a desire of the people for separation,'' he argued.

Mr. Srirama Murthy came down heavily on political parties for keeping aside their manifestoes in the name of coalition politics. Such parties should be debarred from contesting the elections again, he said.

He blamed the TDP for seeking votes with a promise of implementing total prohibition but forgot it after coming to power. "This was nothing but political deceit and fraud on the electorate,'' he felt.

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