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Telangana: Telugu Desam to elicit leaders’ views

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No need for haste on truck with TRS, says core committee

IEEJA (MAHBUBNAGAR Dt): The Telugu Desam has decided to elicit the opinion of MPs, MLAs, MLCs, district presidents and other party functionaries from all regions before formulating its position on the “sensitive issue” of creation of Telangana, party president N. Chandrababu Naidu said here on Thursday.

Addressing a press conference after the party’s core committee meeting on Telangana, he said apart from taking into account the public opinion on the issue, the situation in all the three regions and backward areas would be reviewed. He said the next meeting would be held at Hyderabad on August 21.

‘Wait and watch policy’

Asked if the committee did not make any headway, he said initiating a debate on Telangana itself was a major decision, indicating that the party was adopting a wait-and-watch policy for the present. Mr. Naidu said the committee had held the view that Telengana was a sensitive issue which deserved a thorough review before arriving at a decision.

The meeting lasted more than two hours. Accusing the Congress of having no qualms in stoking regional passions for political gains, Mr. Naidu said the party engineered the Rayalaseema agitation when NTR was Chief Minister and launched the Telangana agitation when he (Mr. Naidu) was at the helm.

He clarified that the TDP went to the election on the unified Andhra Pradesh plank but lost. “The TDP has no longer harped on unified State, but will take a decision in a democratic way as early as possible.”

Meanwhile, TDP sources disclosed that the meeting felt that the party need not adopt any hasty approach for aligning with the TRS. If the TRS was indeed keen on having a truck, its leaders must approach the TDP.

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