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TDP demands Cong put ‘T’ decision on hold
Former Lok Sabha Member and TDP Vice-President Dr M V V S Murthi on Saturday lambasted the Congress-led UPA government, which though in minority took a decision on T State, not caring for the concerns of Seemandhra people.
- Former TDP MP Murthi criticises Cong acted unilaterally
- Says Kiran Reddy sent a correct message to high command
- Asks Chandrababu Naidu to give more clarity on capital issue
- Seemandhra people can stake equal rights to Hyderabad city
- Apprehends situation going out of control
Visakhapatnam: Former Lok Sabha Member and TDP Vice-President Dr M V V S Murthi on Saturday lambasted the Congress-led UPA government, which though in minority took a decision on T State, not caring for the concerns of Seemandhra people.
Addressing a press conference here, he demanded that the ‘unilateral T decision’ be kept in abeyance till 2014 general elections as the Central government cannot impose the will of a party on the people of Andhra Pradesh.
Dr Murthi thanked Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for giving a correct message that who was responsible for the current ‘T’ agitation, observed that the ‘T’ decision announced by the CWC and the UPA government on July 31 was nothing but the decision of the Congress party alone. He demanded that the Congress immediately change Digvijay Singh as in-charge of AP party affairs as he was acting as a ‘Gulam’ to AICC President Sonia Gandhi. Referring to the comment of Singh that a high-power committee headed by A K Anthony had been constituted to look into objections against bifurcation, he asked Singh to note that he was a mere party representative and there was no need for anyone to appear before the committee. Dr Murthi felt that before proposing bifurcation, the issue of State capital should be discussed first. Hyderabad belongs to all, he stressed.
The senior TDP leader did not leave party president N Chandrababu Naidu also. He said Naidu, who wrote to the Centre to attend to Seemandhra concerns, needs to give more ‘clarity’ on the issue of the capital. Seemandhra people were not ready to accept Hyderabad as the joint capital for even 10 minutes, leave alone 10 years, he observed. Nobody can ask Seemandhra staff to leave Hyderabad, he said, indirectly referring to the recent remarks of KCR. The TDP leader also hit out at Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy for stating that the CWC decision was like an inscription. It was an undemocratic behaviour, he said.
He pointed to the flare-up of tensions and tempers in Seemandhra region and expressed concern that the situation may result in a bloody violence should the UPA government proceed on the T issue, riding roughshod on the apprehensions and concerns of Seemandhra people. Party urban district president Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar and others were present.
