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Sonia will meet seniors sooner or later: PCC chief

G. Surya Rao

HYDERABAD: APCC president G. S. Rao has said that the senior Telangana Congresss leaders’ inability in getting appointment with the AICC president Sonia Gandhi was an internal matter of the party.

Questioning the right of the TDP and the TRS to raise a hue and cry over the alleged humiliation to the seniors, Mr. Rao at a press conference here on Tuesday said these parties had no right to talk about self respect.

He questioned as to what happened to the self respect of Telugus, when a group of TDP MLAs hurled footwear on former Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao, when the latter had come to a hotel to appeal to his party men to return to his party fold in middle of 1990s. He also questioned the TRS leaders’ action in raising the bogey of self respect, when the party legislators had humiliated Governor N. D. Tiwari by hurling torn copies of the budget speech. Ms. Gandhi could not meet the delegation as she had not fully recovered from recent illness. Stating that the seniors should not feel bad, he exuded confidence that Ms. Gandhi would invite them for discussion on Telangana.

Mr. Rao lashed out at TRS president K. Chandrasekhara Rao for demanding the resignation of the Congress legislators. On the CWC member G. Venkataswamy’s outburst that the party would drown in Godavari, if a separate State was not announced, he said such remarks caused anguish to the party men.

The APCC president was caught on the wrong foot, when he remarked that Telangana sentiment was not there as there was lot of development. Realising the folly, he immediately clarified that he had no such intention to undermine the sentiment.

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