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Venkataswamy feels humiliated

CWC member was in Delhi for 6 days to meet Sonia
‘No CWC member denied audience by party chief’

HYDERABAD: Congress Working Committee (CWC) member G. Venkataswamy has said that denial of an appointment to meet the AICC president Sonia Gandhi was unprecedented and an insult to a senior leader like him.

“Never has been a CWC member denied an appointment by the party president in the 120 years history of the Congress” Mr. Venkataswamy remarked at a press conference here on Sunday.

The veteran leader recently led a delegation of senior Congress leaders from Telangana to Delhi and had waited in vain for six days to get an appointment from Ms. Gandhi. He said the decision to drop the move to constitute the second States Reorganisation Commission, was a clear indication that the party president was in favour of Telangana.

He said that he would participate in the proposed public meeting being organised in Bhongir on March 10 by senior leaders to show that the sentiment for a separate State was very strong.

The Peddapalli MP earlier, released a poster brought out by the Telangana Congress Dalit Sena, which is organising a “yagnam” in Secunderabad on March 6 in support of a separate Telangana State.

Meanwhile, a group of MLCs met here at the residence of PCC secretary Abid Rasool Khan here and discussed the developments arising out of the remarks made by the seniors.

The meeting attended by MLCs – Bhatti Vikramarka, S. Bhupal Reddy, D. Rajeswara Rao and K. Janardhan Reddy, former DCC president of Mahabubnagar Jagadishwar Reddy, former SETWIN chairman M.A.Khan blamed the seniors for the backwardness of the region.

The meeting while appreciating the State budget hoped that backward Telangana would get a lion’s share in the allocations for developing backward regions. They said the region should be developed before a decision on Telangana was taken.

KCR flayed

The Congress leaders took serious exception to the remarks made by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhara Rao against the Chief Minister and others accusing them of hatching a conspiracy to foment communal trouble in Hyderabad.

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