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Yerran lambasts Diwakar Reddy, Venkatesh

Kakinada: TDP Polit Bureau member K. Yerran Naidu described MLAs J.C. Diwakar Reddy and T.G. Venkatesh as the ‘traitors of Samaikya Andhra’ movement seeking to know what prompted them to make statements that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was convinced that a political consensus was needed to be arrived at for granting Statehood to Telangana.

“Mr. Reddy and Mr. Venkatesh who were bitterly opposed to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s controversial announcement till they boarded the plane to New Delhi, seemed to have compromised their positions in return for offer of Cabinet berths,” he observed.

Addressing media persons at the party here on Thursday, Mr. Naidu said the if the Prime Minister had realised the need to arrive at an equitable solution, he would have spoken out on his own. Mr. Diwakar Reddy and Mr. Venkatesh should not have made the comments they did when all the political parties were fighting together for united Andhra Pradesh. Their utterances created a suspicion that they were bent on fulfilling their personal aspirations.

Mr. Naidu strongly criticised TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao for casting aspersions on the sincerity of those struggling for Samaikya Andhra Pradesh. His remarks that the Samaikya Andhra agitation was driven by monetary considerations belittled the spontaneous reaction that erupted soon after Mr. Chidambaram declared that the process of forming Telangana was set in motion.

As regards KCR’s accusation that the TDP cheated TRS by promising to give Telangana and backing out later, Mr. Naidu asked why he could not get a Bill tabled in the Parliament when he was a Minister in the Union Cabinet if according to him, formation of a separate State did not require a resolution to be passed in the State Legislature. It was KCR’s failure that precipitated the crisis and he was still spreading falsehoods unmindful of the consequences.

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