TD leaders told not to politicise movement

Vijayawada: The YSR Congress leader and former legislator Adusumilli Jayaprakash on Tuesday sought to advise the Telugu Desam leaders to stop politicising the Samaikyandhra movement for their mileage. Speaking to the media, Jayaprakash alleged that the TD which had given a clear letter to the UPA for division of the State was now shedding crocodile tears for the Seemandhra region. At every protest, the TD leaders were shifting the blame on other parties and thus trying to get political benefit, he said and added that people in the State were watching the parties and their role in the present political crisis.

He said that the people in the State, particularly the Seemandhra region were agitating for their future and the future of the State, besides the interests of the younger generations. He also asserted that people have kept the political parties aside for the first time and were agitating for Samaikyandhra while the TD was trying to use the situation for its advantage.

He recalled how Chandrababu Naidu had concentrated total development in and around Hyderabad and neglected rest of the State. In other States like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh have more than two cities developed on equal lines, while Chandrababu Naidu ignored it. However, Dr Rajasekhar Reddy had extended the development to all the three regions by giving universities to every district, IITs to the three regions, taking up irrigation projects in the three regions and initiated plans to develop the State on equal lines.

Jayaprakash thanked the AICC president Sonia Gandhi for fulfilling the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi who wanted the Congress to be dissolved after Independence. While the successive leaders have failed to dissolve the party, he said that Sonia Gandhi had taken the responsibility and all her decisions were leading to total elimination of the Congress from the country’s political scene.