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Telangana Rashtra Samithi betrays people, says TDP

Special Correspondent

Inviting Pawar to Warangal meet termed a mistake

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday asserted that it was the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership that had betrayed the people of Telangana by failing to take up issues affecting the region during the last 14 months.

Responding to the criticism of the party by TRS leaders at their meeting at Warangal on Monday, the TDP leaders -- Ch. Rajeswara Rao, T. Devender Goud, K. Srihari and M. Narsimhulu -- said the two Union Ministers and six State Ministers far from taking up any cause, kept compromising at every stage.

"Their only achievement so far has been to get one-acre site for the party in the posh Banjara Hills in Hyderabad," they added and dared the TRS to go it alone in the coming municipal elections.

"Political bankruptcy"

Addressing a press conference, they said the TRS leaders' "political bankruptcy" was evident in the way they invited the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for their Warangal meet.

They seemed to have forgotten that Mr. Pawar hailed from Maharashtra with which the State was locked in a tussle over building of 12 barrages over the Godavari. The Union Ministers -- K. Chandrasekhar Rao and A. Narendra -- should have used their "political acumen" to convince Mr. Pawar to stop work on the barrage at Babli.

There were several other examples of TRS leaders' betrayal and exploitation of people's sentiments.

Rajolibanda scheme

They said Mr. Chandrasekhara Rao kept promising separate Telangana within three, six and nine months. But nothing happened.

The six TRS Ministers had never spoken a word against injustice to Telangana in irrigation projects nor specifically on the hydel project near the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme.

The Ministers did not lobby enough for the Pranahita project and did nothing for implementation of GO 610.

In contrast, it was during TDP rule that Sriramsagar Project Stage One, Jurala, Alimineti Madhav Reddy and several medium irrigation projects were completed.

To a question they said the party wanted all irrigation projects to come up, including Pulichintala, at the existing site.

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