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By Our Staff Reporter
The launch of the National Front of new States by parties espousing the cause of Telangana, Vidarbha, Bundelkhand, Harita Pradesh and Purvanchal in Delhi on September 9 would impact the national political scene, Mr. Rao told newsmen here on Friday, fresh from his visit of Delhi and Nagpur. Mr. Rao, who called on leaders of Vidarbha Rajya Samithi (VRS), including the former Union Minister, N.K.P. Salve, at Nagpur, said he would attend the launch of the VRS on September 2. The former Prime Minister, Deve Gowda, the former Union Minister, Ramvilas Paswan, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president, Sibu Soren, and the All-India Muslim League president, Banatwala, would attend the meeting to launch the National Front. Mr. Rao disclosed the intentions of the leaders supporting the National Front to contest 115 Lok Sabha seats in the next elections with a common agenda. Even if the parties win 60 to 70 per cent of the seats, no one could stop the formation of the States, he added. The TRS chief said the separate State of Telangana had become a reality now with the joining of forces by parties demanding the new States. ``Even a hundred Chandrababu Naidus cannot prevent Telangana State from coming into being.'' The TRS would carry on its programmes hereafter with both regional and national character. Mr. Rao saw the erosion of the Congress in Vidarbha with stalwarts of the party parting ways. The Congress had to pay a price for cheating people of Telangana and Vidarbha, he added. Referring to Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu's strong defence of interlinking of rivers, Mr. Rao said he was not speaking the truth. The State would lose 300 to 400 tmcft of water under the project. The opposition to the project by all Chief Ministers was recorded in official documents. Mr. Rao alleged that the State Government was leaving Godavari waters untapped only to benefit coastal districts. When an ayacut was proposed for the Nagarjunsagar project, how was the Government justified in releasing water to Krishna delta from the dam, he asked. He also said the national leadership of the CPI was sympathetic to the demand for Telangana during his Delhi tour. He announced the joining of the former Nirmal Municipal Chairman, Padmanabha Reddy, in the TRS.
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