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Telangana not an issue in PR polls: APCC chief

Staff Reporter

Denies there is confusion in Congress over the sensitive issue

VIJAYAWADA: PCC president K. Keshava Rao has said that the Congress is ready for an alliance in panchayat raj polls with any political party other than the TDP and the BJP. While the TDP was anti-rural, the BJP was communal, he said at a press conference here on Sunday.

But the alliances would be entirely decided by local units of the party, and the PCC would intervene only in case of any dispute, he said. Expressing confidence that the party would romp home with an unprecedented number of seats at all levels, Dr. Rao claimed that the TDP had already conceded defeat by talking about securing only 10 per cent seats.

The Congress would go to people based on its pro-rural plank, and not any other issue such as Telangana, he said in reply to a question.

Dr. Rao said there was no confusion in the Congress about the Telangana issue, as it had been left to party president Sonia Gandhi who was a better judge.

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