The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : `TRS, Cong. misleading people of Telangana'

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Tuesday, Sep 14, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

`TRS, Cong. misleading people of Telangana'

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, SEPT. 13. The senior leader of the BJP, Bandaru Dattatreya, has termed the ongoing war of words between the TRS and the Congress shameful to politics. He also observed that separate Telangana was not possible for both parties.

Talking to newspersons here on Monday, he said the Congress men in the State had turned furious as K. Chandrasekhar Rao had his outbursts aimed at the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and not because of the state of spiteful politics. He, however, said the comments of KCR were uncalled for by being a member of the Union Cabinet headed by the Congress.

Mr. Dattatreya reminded the Congress men that they had kept quiet when KCR had termed N. Chandrababu Naidu and Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy robbers of the same gang, when TDP was in power. He failed to understand why the Congress was bearing with the TRS in spite of the latter's provocative comments from time to time.

`Unparliamentary'

Using unparliamentary language was very much usual with KCR and the Congress had encouraged his tone when in Opposition, he said.

He also criticised the TRS leaders, KCR and Narendra, for lack of stability in their words as they would praise Ms. Sonia Gandhi as goddess one day and abuse her with objectionable language the next day.

Separate Telangana was not possible both with TRS and Congress, he said and stated that the Congress would deceive both the TRS and people of Telangana and the TRS had no capacity to press for its demand beyond a limit.

People of the State had voted Congress and TRS to power and it was for them to do everything for achieving statehood for Telangana. But, the difference of opinion within the Congress was a bane for the proposal.

While Mr. Rajasekhara Reddy was reiterating that they were for second SRC, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had reiterated their commitment to Telangana with consensus and dialogue at an appropriate time. Scope for a dialogue was minimal when there was distrust in both the parties, Mr. Dattatreya said.

BJP for small

The BJP on its part was for smaller states and creation of three states was an indication of their resolve.

They had, in fact, passed a resolution for trifurcation of Andhra Pradesh at the party's State executive meeting at Kakinada in 1997. But, it had to keep quiet later due to NDA coalition, he explained.

The TRCC leaders had gone all out for Congress-TRS alliance before the elections but were bent upon breaking it now, hoping that the Cabinet berths given to TRS were their property.

People of Telangana were watching the Congress carefully for its conspiracy against statehood to their region, he said.

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