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`Congress ready for debate on factional violence'

Special Correspondent

Chief Whip says problem had grown only under the TDP rule

Hyderabad: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has picked up the gauntlet thrown by TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, on debating factional violence in Rayalaseema.

Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, Government Chief Whip N. Kiran Kumar Reddy said the ruling party itself would initiate the debate in the next Assembly session.

However, he said the Telugu Desam Party had shown little interest in taking up a similar debate in the Assembly after the killing of Paritala Ravindra, former TDP MLA. He said the Congress MLAs had to initiate it when the TDP dodged the issue conveniently. He said factional violence had grown only under the TDP rule in the past and a report of M. V. Mysoora Reddy confirmed it with statistics in the past.

The appeal of Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to deny tickets to faction leaders in elections had earlier fallen on deaf ears with the TDP ignoring it, he said, wondering whether the vexatious issue could be settled without unanimity. Mr. Naidu was in the habit of blaming his opponents for the murders forgetting his own contribution, he said, pointing to the allegations levelled against Dr. Mysoora Reddy when the latter was a Home Minister in 1993 in the wake of former TD MLA Siva Reddy's murder.

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