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Tuesday, Apr 11, 2006

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Focus will be on a `united' Andhra Pradesh, says Gade

Ramesh Susarla

Says YSR-led Government committed to development

BAPATLA : All Congressmen will turn `integrationists' and veer round the `united' Andhra Pradesh idea against the few leaders of the party from Telangana, who for their own reasons were wavering and favouring a separate Telangana, vocal party leader and Bapatla MLA Gade Venkata Reddy has said. Indira Gandhi was also in favour of a united Andhra Pradesh and had observed in Parliament that only backwardness should not be the criterion for carving our a new state.

"We will have princely states left if we go on dividing states, she had observed," the MLA added. Implementation of the GO 610 was being interpreted by various political parties and leaders as it suited them not taking into consideration the original Presidential Order of 1972, Mr. Reddy told The Hindu here on Monday. "Better development of any region was possible only in a united Andhra Pradesh and the Government led by Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy is committed to it," he added.

"Let the Government come out with a white paper on the development in all sectors region wise (Andhra, Telangana and Rayalaseema) so that the Opposition and the political leaders can make a study," he suggested. "The CPI-M has a nexus with the TSP to destabilise the Government," he alleged.

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