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KCR accuses TDP chief of opportunism

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‘Naidu encouraging leaders from Andhra, Rayalaseema to launch stir’

Strategies of TDP chief and other leaders on T-issue will fail, he says
‘TDP has exposed its dual standards by making a U-turn after the announcement on Telangana’

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao accused Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu of rank opportunism on the Telangana issue and said he would end up enjoying lesser credibility than film star-turned-politician K. Chiranjeevi.

The Praja Rajyam president had openly reversed his earlier stand in favour of a unified Andhra Pradesh whereas Mr. Chandrababu Naidu was unable to specify his political position and was encouraging party leaders from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema region to launch an agitation, he told mediapersons after admitting TDP leaders from Sirpur into his party’s fold on Friday evening.

Mr. Rao said Mr. Naidu, who was under pressure from former Minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao to take a public stand in favour of unified Andhra Pradesh, was not willing to listen to party leaders from Telangana like E. Dayakar Rao and Kadiam Srihari who had now decided to go their own way and organise a bus yatra.

The TRS leader claimed that Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s ‘historic announcement’ on December 9 was a clear indication that Telangana was being formed and whatever strategies that Mr. Naidu and other leaders planned would fail.

In a trenchant attack on Mr. Naidu, he said the TDP leader was known for his policy of ‘use and throw’ and his stand on supporting a resolution on Telangana in the Assembly was in line with it. No less than the party’s deputy leader P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju had announced after the all-party meeting on December 7 that the TDP would extend its whole-hearted support. However, once Mr. Chidambaram made the announcement, the TDP did a complete U-turn, thus exposing his dual standards.

He went on to accuse Mr. Naidu of diluting the ideals for which N. T. Rama Rao. “I was senior to Mr. Naidu in the TDP by 18 months,” he said and added that today’s TDP had not even a per cent of the ideals for which late NTR had founded the party.

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