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TDP throws challenge at KCR

Special Correspondent

None of the TD leaders interested in shifting loyalties, says Nagam
Party Telangana leaders may launch a joint action committee

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam on Tuesday challenged TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao to reveal the names of party leaders who purportedly telephoned him to join his party and make public the party which initiated him into politics and made him Minister. Addressing a press conference, Nagam Janardhan Reddy, convenor of Telugu Desam forum on Telangana said Mr. Rao would be thoroughly disappointed as none of the TD leaders were interested in shifting their loyalties. They were happy in the party and the entire cadre in the region remained with them. In fact, they were considering launching a joint action committee to spearhead the struggle for separate State.

On Mr. Rao's comment that TDP has become “Andhra party”, he said the former should clarify in which party he had joined first and which was the one that made him MLA four times, Minister and then Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Rao should not forget that but for TDP, his political career would have been a big zero and that he was once a staunch integrationist. The TRS president's only grouse was he was not made Minister for yet another time, he added.

Mr. Reddy said Telangana was not the “jagir” of Mr. Rao to prevent others from fighting on issues like removal of shutters from Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) project. He recalled that while he was fighting for Telangana in 1969 and was jailed for seven months, Mr. Rao was “showing films” in Mumbai. Even now as MP representing Mahabubnagar, Mr. Rao did not visit RDS.

Kodela's poser

At a separate press conference, another senior leader Kodela Sivaprasada Rao wondered where the TRS president would have been if he had not joined TDP and wondered what the latter would do if Srikrishna Committee gives a report contrary to his expectations.

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