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Wednesday, Feb 01, 2006

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Telugu Desam makes light of BJP move

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam party on Tuesday asserted that the latest decision by the State BJP to take up the issue of separate Telangana and come closer to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi would not have any impact on it.

Addressing a press conference, party general secretaries -- Yousuf Ali and Sobha Nagi Reddy -- said the subject did not figure in the executive meeting but there would be no change in its stand. It was for the development of backward regions within the integrated State and it would launch any struggle to achieve it.

Asked to comment on the RSS reportedly complimenting the Congress, they said everybody was aware of the way the Congress took the BJP's help after the municipal elections in Andhra Pradesh.

Party workers' killing

The party's executive discussed a host of issues and condemned the murder of two party workers in Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's constituency of Pulivendula in Kadapa district. They said TDP activists were being targeted, because of the encouragement given by the powers that be.

It was critical of the way Governors' posts have been politicised by the Congress-led UPA Government and wanted a national debate on continuing the post of Governor.

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