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CPI justifies support to Telangana

Special Correspondent

‘Negligence by successive Governments resulted in imbalanced growth’

HYDERABAD: The Communist Party of India has justified the party’s decision to support the formation of separate Telangana State as Telangana did not remain as an emotive issue any more.

CPI national secretary and MP Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said the “criminal negligence” by successive Governments had resulted in “imbalanced” growth in the region making it socially as well as economically backward.

“Faced with 52 years of utter neglect, more and more people are seeking to part ways with their counterparts of other regions,” he said.

Asked about CPI (M)’s charge that Communist Party of India did not support the separate Telangana movement in 1969, he said Telangana movement started only 13 years after the formation of the State.

Though it was anticipated that successive Government’s would implement the ‘Gentlemen’s agreement’ and other provisions in letter and spirit for balanced growth, it did not happen.

Moreover, repeated requests made by the CPI for the constitution of regional council and sanction of Rs. 10,000 crore special package for the region were not heeded to by the Governments leading to “widening of gap between the people of different regions”, the CPI leader added.

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