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BJP better ally than CPI (M): MRPS

Staff Reporter

‘KCR committing mistake of allying with wrong parties for second time’

ADILABAD: Founder president of Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS), Manda Krishna Madiga on Thursday opined that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was a better ally for Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) than the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for achieving a separate Telangana.

He said the TRS chief K. Chandrashekhara Rao will be committing a mistake of allying with the wrong parties for the second time in case he goes in for an electoral understanding with the CPI (M) this time.

Stand

Mr. Madiga was replying to questions from reporters over his stand on the separate Telangana issue at the local press club. He said the BJP should be preferable because it is clear in its stand on separate Telangana unlike the CPI (M) that is in favour of a unified Andhra Pradesh.

On the Telugu desam Party’s (TDP) changed stand on Telangana, the MRPS president said though he welcomed the change he was suspect of it because that party was committed only for the legal process for formation of a separate State.

The party did not commit about participating in struggles to achieve it, he added.

Talking about the categorisation of SC reservation, Mr. Madiga warned the Congress government of intensified agitations like the blockading of the camp office of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on November 10.

The chalo Hyderabad rally on that day will be participated by an estimated 15 to 20 lakhs of Madigas, he said.

In case the Union government failed to move a Bill in the Parliament’s winter session, the Congress party will also lose the votes of Madigas in Andhra Pradesh that came up to 10 per cent of the total electorate, he warned.

He visited Adilabad town during his Dandora Dandayatra.

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