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TRS eyeing Muslim bank: BJP

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‘Playing appeasement politics by pressing for Sachar panel implementation’

Making a point: Senior BJP leaders Bandaru Dattatreya and Ch. Vidya Sagar Rao at a meeting of the party’s Telangana representatives at Armur in Nizamabad district on Tuesday.

ARMUR (NIZAMABAD): Bharatiya Janata Party has accused Telangana Rashtra Samiti of resorting to appeasement politics with an eye on Muslim minority vote bank and for this reason TRS has been agitating for implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the BJP State president B. Dattatreya, said the TRS remained unmoved over the farmers’ suicides, but was making efforts to be in the forefront to press for the of implementation of reservations for Muslim minorities.

On Telangana, he said his party would launch the Telangana Dandora on September 25 to take the demand for separate Statehood for the region to all villages.

Before that the party would collect lakhs of signatures on the demand.

Former Union Minister Ch. Vidya Sagar Rao deplored the language being used by Members of Legislative Assembly in the House. He said the members instead of discussing the issue over the distribution of house sites to the poor and downtrodden they were more interested in taking up discussion on the Chief Minister’s lands and other issues.

Discussions in the Assembly should be on the welfare of the people and public issues and should give confidence to the poor. Unfortunately the debates and discussions in the House were becoming useless to the common people.

Later in the meeting of the party representatives the BJP leaders criticised that the TRS and the Congress stating that they deceived the Telangana people in the name of bifurcation of the State.

They reiterated that their party would support the Bill on Telangana if moved by the Congress in the Parliament.

The meeting unanimously passed resolutions demanding remunerative prices to turmeric and sugarcane farmers and payment of arrears to the cane growers by the sugar factories.

Former Minister D.K. Samara Simha Reddy, former MP C. Janga Reddy, party leaders Ch. Samba Murthy, L. Bhupati Reddy, B. Linga Reddy, Yendala Lakshminarayana were among those who spoke.

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