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Narendra’s party to stay away from bypolls

Staff Reporter

‘TRS president has the habit of selling party tickets’
KCR responsible for delay in formation of Telangana

Sangareddy: Medak Member of Parliament and former Union Minister Ale Narendra said that the process of registering his new party named, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (Nationalistic), would be completed by April 15. He was addressing a press conference here on Wednesday.

He reiterated that his party would stay away from the byelections but would be fully geared up for the 2009 general elections. He also chalked out a plan for the establishment of mandal, constituency and district-level committees with his close aides at his camp office here.

Commenting on the decision of the TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao to field new candidates in some of the 16 vacated Assembly seats, Narendra said that it is the habit of KCR to make money by selling party tickets.

He also said that Congress is finding it difficult to zero-in on willing candidates as it knows that the development plank would not work in Telangana.

‘Enemies of Telangana’

Narendra alleged that the real enemies of Telangana are KCR, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu.

He alleged that no one but KCR should be held responsible for the delay in formation of Telangana state. He said that the tantrums, resignation stunt and periodical threats by the TRS president have dragged the issue so far.

Narendra left his choice of alliance for the imagination of the scribes by saying that carving of a new state would be possible only by two national parties, the Congress or the BJP. He said that he would never truck with Congress but refused to comment on his intentions to work with BJP in the ensuing elections.

He later visited the camp of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh where farmers are on an indefinite hunger strike demanding better price for sugarcane.

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