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Goud wants KCR to join hands with PR

Special Correspondent

Says ready to explore ways to get statehood for Telangana through the medium of elections

HYDERABAD: Nava Telangana Party (NTP) president T. Devender Goud has asked his Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao to accompany him to Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi to discuss the road map to achieve statehood for Telangana.

In an apparent suggestion to Mr. Rao to join hands with Chiranjeevi, Mr. Goud asked the former whether separate Telangana would be possible if TRS joined the alliance led by Telugu Desam in which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was a partner. He reminded Mr. Rao that the CPI (M) was opposed to separate Telangana.

Mr. Goud was addressing a meeting organised by various Telangana-based employees and officers associations to release their respective New Year diaries.

Ready for talks

He said he was willing to talk to Mr. Rao to explore ways to get statehood for Telangana through the medium of elections.

They could visit Chiranjeevi in the process.

Mr Devender Goud asked parties and organisations championing the cause of Telangana to contest the polls unitedly if they were not satisfied that alliance with Telugu Desam party (TDP) or Praja Rajyam would help them achieve their objective.

Call for unity

He wanted to broach the matter of pro Telangana forces going to polls unitedly with Mr. Rao’s associate K. Jaishanker who expressed a similar sentiment at the launch of Nava Telangan party.

Weakening movement

The NTP president earlier lashed out at TRS for weakening the separate Telangana movement by giving tickets in the last elections to candidates who deserted the party after getting elected.

“If contractors were to be given tickets, they would inevitably switch loyalties to parties that awarded them contracts”.

BJP State president B. Dattatreya also called for unity of forces fighting for Telangana.

On coming to power, he said the BJP led National Democratic Alliance would concede the demand whatever be its constituent parties.

Awareness

Civil rights activist G. Haragopal said the demand for separate Telangana was earlier driven by Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao but now people were driving him to achieve it. Such was the spread of awareness in the region.

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