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TDP makes light of Kalam's reference to Telangana

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 8. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said here on Tuesday that it attached no special significance to the reference to Telangana by the President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in his address to the two Houses of Parliament.

The party maintained that the address had not made any concrete proposal on the creation of a separate Telangana state and the reference was no different from what was already stated in the UPA's common minimum programme. "The TDP stands by its resolve to support an integrated Andhra Pradesh," said the party spokesmen, C. Ramachandraiah, S. Jaipal Yadav and general secretary, R. Prakash Reddy, at a press conference here.

Significantly, they expressed the TDP's willingness to seek the support of other political parties at the Centre to stall any move to create a separate state. Although they did not name these parties, the CPI (M) is among those opposed to separate Telangana.

The TDP leaders condemned the recent spate of attacks on its partymen, climaxed by the daylight murder of Salim Basha, a municipal councillor of Dharmavaram, on Monday. They said there were instances of 27 attacks on TDP followers in 15 districts after the Congress came to power three weeks ago. Besides, 19 false cases had been foisted on their partymen, they said.

Quoting a reported statement of the Anantapur SP, they alleged that Congress leaders led by one K. Sudhakar Reddy were responsible for the attack on Basha. In another instance earlier, Congressmen had fatally attacked a TDP worker, Tirupatiswamy in Pamidipadu village in the Narasaraopet constituency of Guntur district.

Citing several cases of assaults on partymen, they said this trend was not good for the State. The TDP, they held, never encouraged political violence or vendetta of any kind. They demanded that the State Government ask the police to act with a firm hand against perpetrators of such violence.

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