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Wednesday, Nov 10, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Be patient on Telangana, APCC chief advises TRS

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 9. The APCC president, K. Keshava Rao, has said that consensus is the key to any solution to the Telangana issue and there could be no two opinions on it.

For achieving its goal, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti must cultivate a virtue called patience and not set deadlines to the Congress high-command, he counselled the TRS leadership.

At a `meet the press' programme organised by the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists here on Tuesday, Dr. Keshava Rao reiterated his party's line on the Second States Reorganisation Commission ruling out any negative impact on the Congress over this stand.

The campaign against irrigation projects was irrational and people would not believe in it, he said. The deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, G. Venkata Swamy, was misquoted on Pulichintala since he was at best arguing in favour of balanced development of the State.

Dig at TDP

He dismissed as irrelevant reports that the Government was going ahead with the projects at the cost of Telangana. "Telangana stood to gain by the plans of the Congress Government. The TDP had neglected the backward regions and hence had no right to talk about regional imbalances," he said.

Media reports suggesting that the Congress Government had not gained full control over the administration were mere speculation as the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, was in full command, he added.

Promising to make the APCC a pressure group to get the election manifesto implemented, he said that the Government had already made a qualitative difference to the State plagued by the `anti-people' Telugu Desam rule for nine years. The Congress Government would be more humane than its predecessor and the PCC would compliment its work, he said.

As an APCC president, he had a greater responsibility in convincing his party workers to seek respectability rather than hanker after positions of power like TD leaders.

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