Date:08/07/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/07/08/stories/2005070808730300.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

Congress ignoring Indira's stand on Telangana: TDP

Staff Reporter

State witnessing political `tsunami,' say Anantapur leaders

Indira Gandhi had opposed demand for separate State
Cabinet Sub-Committee nullifies Government's claims

Corruption, chaos, crisis overriding factors in governance

ANANTAPUR: The Congress Governments at the Centre and in the State are acting against the determination exhibited by the former Prime Minister, late Indira Gandhi, in 1977, when she had firmly turned down the demand for a separate Telangana, according to district leaders of the TDP here. Speaking to newspersons at the party office on Thursday, the district president, V. Hanumantharaya Chowdary, the former Rajya Sabha member, K.M. Saifullah, P. Raghunatha Reddy and others said the claims of the Congress Governments that they would bring back "Indiramma rajyam" were proving to be shallow as a Cabinet Sub-Committee was set up at the Centre on the Telangana issue a few months ago.

They reminded that Indira Gandhi had stoutly opposed the demand for a separate statehood to Telangana region. They said that corruption, chaos and crisis were overriding governance in the State. In one of his recent articles, the noted journalist, Kuldeep Nayyar, had observed that Andhra Pradesh was topping in corruption, confusion and crises while assessing performance of Governments in 26 States, they noted.

YSR's tour flayed

The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and several of his Cabinet colleagues were away on

foreign tours at a time when issues like Telangana, extremism, junior doctors' strike, APSRTC employees' strike, and others were rocking the State, they charged. A political tsunami was brewing in here, they observed.