KCR tells Naidu to focus on AP

CM advises AP govt not to make fuss on Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao advised the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh government to concentrate on solving various problems confronting its own people instead of poking its nose into affairs of Telangana State, especially Hyderabad.

Addressing the party workers at a function organised to admit former Congress leader D Srinivas into the party on Wednesday at Telangana Bhavan, KCR lashed out at the TDP government and its actions during the last one year. Rao said Telangana State which is just one year old, is like an infant.

However, during last one year Naidu has been hatching conspiracies one after the other and has been causing hurdles in the progress of the state. He is hell bent to prove that the decision to accord separate statehood was wrong, he said. He said as soon as Telangana became a reality, the neighbouring government showed its true colours by refusing to supply electricity.

Also, the accounts of various institutions were frozen unilaterally. Funds that were meant to be divided between two States were forcibly taken away while debts were shown on Telangana government’s head. Eamcet exam has been made a bone of contention, he lamented.

The Chief Minister pointed out that Telangana was a small state with only ten districts while AP consisted of 13 districts. Its geographical extent is very large stretching from Srikakulam to Anantapur with problems galore for farmers and different sections. It would be better for Naidu to focus on the problems of people of his state rather than concentrate his energies on Hyderabad and create problems for people of Telangana.

Rao said that his government would ensure ‘secular’ tag for Telangana where Hindus and Muslims work for development of each other and the State. This is the reason Telangana government decided to hold Iftaar and distribute clothes to Muslim brethren, he said, reminding that Mahatma Gandhi himself hailed the secular fabric of Hyderabad, where Muslims and Hindus co-existed without worries unlike north Indians at that time.

Commenting on former PCC chief entry, he said that D Srinivas was a very old friend of his and that they knew each other for over three decades. DS is like an elder brother to him. The government and the party would use his services accordingly, he said. Decision taken with full clarity: DS

Responding to KCR, Srinvas said although the decision to leave Congress and join TRS was a difficult one, it was taken with full clarity and conscience. He said he did not join the party for any post. “I have enjoyed all important posts during my long political career,” he added.

Chandrasekhar Rao, Srinivas said, was like an encyclopedia, and has been striving to transform the state into Bangaru Telangana and it is time for all to strengthen him, he said. D Srinivas’s son D Sanjay and several ZPTCs, MPTCs, Sarpanches, Corporators from the district also joined the ruling party.

Various ministers, MP Kavitha and MLAs from Nizamabad district were present. However, K Keshav Rao, TRS secretary general and former colleague of DS in the Congress party, was conspicuous by his absence.