The Hindu : `CM tried to create hurdles for TRS meet'

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Monday, Apr 28, 2003

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

`CM tried to create hurdles for TRS meet'

By Our Staff Reporter

WARANGAL APRIL 27. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, accused the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, of trying to prevent national leaders from attending the TRS meeting at Warangal.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Rao said by using his good offices, the Chief Minister had persuaded the Prime Minister to convene a special Cabinet meeting to hold back Union Minister Ajit Singh from attending the meeting. "Over 40 telegrams were sent to him urging him not to come for the TRS meeting. The Prime Minister personally called up Mr. Ajit Singh and wanted him to attend the Cabinet meeting,'' the TRS leader said.

According to him, Mr. Ajit Singh informed Mr. Rao about the developments and said since he missed the last flight from Delhi, he would leave for Mumbai and reach Hyderabad by a chartered flight. "Chandrababu Naidu cannot stop the Telangana movement by cheap tricks,'' Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao said, adding that the Chief Minister was planning to advance the Assembly elections before the TRS consolidates its position further. However, the TRS would bag a majority of seats in the next Assembly elections, he said.

The TRS leader said the party would hold talks with the leaders of Purvanchal, Vidarbha, Haritha Pradesh and Bundelkand today and would form a `National Front for New States in May.' The front will launch a campaign for statehood for the regions at the national level.

Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao demanded that the Narasampet MLA, Revuri Prakash Reddy, resign from the TDP and join the movement as the State Government had failed to implement the recommendations made by the Cabinet sub-committee on GO 610 headed by him.

Referring to the CLP leader, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's padayatra, the TRS leader said it would only benefit the Telangana movement and not the Congress as is being claimed by the leaders. The TRS leader reached Warangal town by bicycle accompanied by hundreds of party workers.

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