Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Telangana not the only issue: TDP

HYDERABAD: Asserting that the demand for a separate Telangana was not the only issue before the electorate in the bypolls, Telugu Desam Party Polit Bureau member T. Devender Goud said there was widespread resentment against the Congress government for its administration.

Responding to a question at a ‘Meet the Press’ programme organised by the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists Federation here on Saturday, he said the bypolls could not be termed a referendum simply because there were other issues.Elaborating, Mr. Goud said the demand for Telangana had emerged from people of the region and it would unfair to say that political leaders were agitating for it only for the sake of power. If it were not TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, someone else would have spearheaded an agitation, he said.

The people were blaming Congress for total neglect of welfare of the State, alarming levels of corruption and diversion of allocated funds to ‘Jalayagnam’, while they were wary of trusting the TRS, given the way TRS leaders had gone back and forth on their promises, he said.

The TDP leader stated that the party’s five-member committee would submit its report to the high command well ahead of the general elections. He admitted that the committee could not even meet once and hastened to add that it was only due to hectic schedule of N. Chandrababu Naidu .

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