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TDP MP-elect creates flutter

K. Venkateshwarlu

Dayakar Rao hints at party’s possible truck with TRS

E. Dayakar Rao

HYDERABAD: Separate Telangana continues to cause churning in Telugu Desam even after its main protagonist T. Devender Goud left the party.

On Tuesday, TDP MP-elect from Warangal, Eraballi Dayakar Rao, dropped a bombshell by giving interviews to television channels stating that the party was not averse to forging an alliance with its bete noire Telangana Rashtra Samiti.

Political circles were agog with speculation about “surprising re-alignments” in the offing in the run-up to the elections. But by afternoon, Mr. Rao hurriedly joined a press conference at the TDP office to claim that he was quoted selectively in the interviews and that the talk of alliances now was too presumptive, since the elections were several months away.

Mr. Rao apparently had to retract after he was reportedly pulled up by TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu for going to town on alliance with Telangana parties.

The snub was confirmed when Mr. Naidu, now on a “Mee Kosam yatra” in East Godavari district, dismissed such reports of alliance with TRS, as mere speculation.

He said the Polit Bureau’s decisions would prevail over individual views on the issue of Telangana.

Till then, no significance should be attached to any statement which might give a different impression.

But even while clarifying what he had stated in the TV interviews, Mr. Rao broadly hinted at such an alliance and even justified it.

For instance, he wondered why such a fuss was being created when two political parties came together for mutual benefit.

“If our party can win 100 seats in alliance with another party in Telangana what is wrong in it? Another 100 from other regions and we will come back to power.”

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