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Give us clear majority, get Telangana: BJP

Special Correspondent

Only political will can make it a reality: Venkaiah Naidu

Phase one of BJP ‘Telangana Kranthi Yatra’ concludes
Phase two from Nagarjunasagar
on February 8

HYDERABAD: Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday appealed to the people to give them clear majority to realise the goal of separate Telangana.

They were addressing a gathering at the end of the phase one of the party’s ‘Telangana Kranthi Yatra’ in the mandal headquarters town of Devarakonda in Nalgonda district. Phase two will start from Nagarjunasagar on February 8.

Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu recalled that in 1996, the party had gone to polls with the slogan of ‘One vote, two States’ and if people gave it a majority, separate Telangana would have become a reality. There were only two parties which had the capacity to carve out a separate State, he said, referring to the BJP and the Congress. He firmly said that agitations or bloodshed would not get people Telangana. “Only political will could make it a reality.”

‘Stage-managed’

He lashed out at the Congress for failing to keep up its pre-poll promise and alleged that the ‘so-called in-fighting’ on Telangana among different sections in the party was a stage-managed affair, with intent to mislead people. “Instead of fighting about seniors and juniors in the party, the Congress leadership would do well to sit together and chalk out an action plan,” he suggested.

Other leaders who addressed the gathering included the party’s State president Bandaru Dattatreya, national secretary Nallu Indrasena Reddy, K. Laxman, Chinta Sambamurthy, Baddam Bal Reddy and district president G. Madhusudhan Reddy.

The leaders unanimously demanded that the Congress come with a clear statement clarifying its stand on Telangana. They also reiterated that regional parties simply did not have the wherewithal to give people a separate State.

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