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KCR call to Telangana votaries

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrashekhar Rao said here on Tuesday that the time had come for votaries of separate Telangana to cut across party lines and join forces in order to achieve their goal.

Addressing a press conference, he came down heavily on Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy for his reported remarks ruling out the formation of separate Telangana state till the next elections and described him as ‘a betrayer of Telangana’.

He said it was evident now that Dr. Reddy was confident of the Congress party’s electoral prospects in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema and, therefore, he was opposing separate Telangana.

The TRS leader said Dr. Reddy’s plea for a clear majority for the Congress at a time when coalition Governments had become the order of the day reflected “his ignorance.” The Congress had already been decimated in several States including Uttar Pradesh where its vote share had come down from nine to 4.5 per cent in the previous elections and it was in no position to form a Government on its own.

He asked the people of the region “with self-respect” to set aside the differences and join forces .

“TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu was shown the door for the way he treated the region and the present Government will also meet the same fate,” he said adding people were not prepared to get carried away by the sops being offered by Mr. Naidu.

At a separate press conference, TRS legislator T. Harish Rao was blunt in asking the elected representatives of the Congress from Telangana to take a firm stand as the Chief Minister was “playing with their careers for protecting his position.”

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