TRS to submit memo to Governor

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, JUNE 29. The Telangana Rastra Samiti president, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has said that his party would submit a memorandum to the Governor, Dr. Rangarajan, on Saturday urging him to initiate steps to restrain the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, and the TDP Government from misusing official machinery and take proper action for maintenance of law and order.

Talking to reporters at a press conference on Friday evening during his one-hour brief visit to the district headquarters to call on an injured TRS MPTC candidate, who was stabbed by unidentified persons, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao alleged that the TDP was unnerved by the response to his party. ``Out of frustration and fear, the TDP cadres are resorting to physical attacks,'' he alleged stating that the TRS cadres were not afraid of such attacks. He called upon the party cadres to observe restraint and avoid indulging in violence.

The TRS leader said the Chief Minister had to own moral responsibility for such incidents involving the TDP cadres. He said the Nizamabad incident was not an isolated one, but in Mancherial town of Adilabad district also an MPTC candidate was abducted by the TDP cadres.

Similarly, in Zaheerabad mandal of Medak district, TRS cadres were threatened by TDP workers not to contest the elections. ``Under the prevailing circumstances, the TRS has no other go than approaching the Governor to take immediate steps to come to the rescue of the party cadres,'' he pointed out. Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao said by resorting to physical attacks, the TDP could not achieve anything. The TDP was jittery at the prospects of losing the PR elections and it was trying to adopt terror tactics to force people to support it, he alleged.

He said the Nizamabad incident was an insult to the self-respect of the people of Telangana. Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao made fun of the allegation levelled by the ruling party that his party had links with naxals.

He launched a tirade against the TDP by alleging that it was the TDP which had fielded a former deputy dalam commander of the PWG as its party nominee for the ZPTC seat of Sirikonda in Nizamabad district. He said the people of Telangana would teach a fitting lesson to the TDP in the coming elections.

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