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TRS resignation move a drama: TDP

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party has termed as “political drama”, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti MPs’ and MLAs’ ultimatum to resign their posts by March 6.

At a press conference, party leaders T. Srinivas Yadav and P. Yadagiri said it was surprising that TRS president K. Chandrashekhar Rao should serve such an ultimatum on the issue of second States Reorganisation Commission on which he himself had entered into an agreement with the Congress in March 2004. After sharing power with Congress both at the Centre and State, Mr. Rao has suddenly remembered that he had to oppose the second SRC, which meant he was doing it with an eye on the coming elections.

Mr. Yadav supported the concept of an integrated State as well as the discussion and decision on Telangana at an appropriate time. He also denied having indirectly asked senior leader T. Devender Goud to leave the party.

He took exception to Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao’s description of TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu as dictatorial, saying that the former had forgotten that he had removed his senior colleague

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