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T Cong MPs meet PM to oppose RT
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T Cong MPs Meet PM to Oppose RT, Rayala-Telangana Proposal. “We would have more problems than solutions,” they said, if the two districts were included in Telangana, as region had no control over the vital supplies of water.
New Delhi: Senior Telangana Congress leader Palvai Goverdhan Reddy led a delegation of the party MPs from the region to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to oppose the Rayala-Telangana proposal and the suggestion to accord Union Territory status to Hyderabad.
“The two issues are not in the interest of Telangana people, who had suffered untold miseries under the Seemandhra rule for the last 60 years,” Reddy said. The delegation opposed creation of Rayala-Telangana and insisted on going along the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolution of July 30, which was for 10 districts with Hyderabad as the capital.
Besides Reddy, the delegation comprised Ponnam Prabhakar, Rapolu Anand Bhasker, S Rajaiah and G Sukender Reddy. The MPs pointed out that the Rayala-Telangana proposal was mooted by Majlis-e-Ithehadul-Muslimeen (MIM). But the MIM was not close to the Congress; it was supporting the YSRCP of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. The leaders claimed that the MIM was trying to communalize the two districts of Rayalaseema. As of now Muslims of Kurnool and Anantapur districts were with the Congress and that there was no need for over-dependence on the MIM.
The MPs argued that the late Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy had created ‘illegal’ outlets from the Srisailam Project to irrigate lakhs of acres through Pothireddipadu Head Regulator, resulting in shortage of water in the Nagarjunasagar Project. They said Kurnool and Kadapa were inter-linked by a common canal.
“We would have more problems than solutions,” they said, if the two districts were included in Telangana, as region had no control over the vital supplies of water.
Opposing UT status to Hyderabad, the MPs said big businessmen from Seemandhra were in control of the Government and private lands. “There are no sound reasons for them to claim Hyderabad as their own, merely because there has been great influx of their population,” they stated. They argued that ties of the TRS had soured with the TDP and YSRCP; the TRS relations were good with the BJP, but with tactful management, the TRS could go along with the Congress. They suggested to the high command to directly deal with the TRS.
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