TDP to launch T-unit

Express News Service
First Published : 15 Dec 2009 03:15:00 AM IST
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HYDERABAD: Slowly recovering from the shock administered by the UPA Government, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu resurrected and adopted a two-pronged strategy.

He is now ready with a `perfect’ script to please the people of both the Telangana and the Andhra regions. Simultaneous movements will be started in both the regions for T and for United Andhra.

As per the script, the TDP will start Telangana unit of the party - Telangana TDP (TTDP) or Telangana Desam Party (TDP). As a prelude to this, the party will constitute a five-member coordination committee for T-region.

The committee, which will be announced in a day or two, have seniors Nagam Janardhan Reddy, E Dayakar Rao, M Narasimhulu, L Ramana and Ramesh Rathod. The Telangana face of the TDP will be again T Devender Goud, who returned to the partyfold from the PRP. Goud will tour extensively in the T-region by using his BC card, espouse T-sentiment among the party cadre and see that all the people rally behind the party.

Meanwhile, Telangana TDP MLAs, who met in the lobbies of the Assembly, have decided to request Naidu to start the Telangana unit of the party.

They demanded that the Centre should initiate the process for Telangana as per its commitment. At a separate meeting in the lobbies of the Assembly, TDP MLAs from Andhra and Rayalaseema decided to continue their agitation for Samaikya Andhra State.

Party MLA P Keshav said that all the ministers and Congress MPs should resign to their posts in support of United Andhra. Asked whether the TDP leaders were also demanding Kuppam MLA N Chandrababu Naidu’s (TDP chief) resignation, Keshav shot back: ``Do not insult our United Andhra statehood movement’’. He, however, said that they spared party presidents and do not press for their resignations.

When asked about TDP Politburo’s resolution that favoured T-state, Keshav said that it would be dynamic situation in politics. “The political situation is changing every minute and the party will take decisions accordingly,’’ he added. “We are acting as per the wishes of the people of Andhra and Rayalaseema,’’ he said.

The Andhra TDP MLAs said that they would intensify their movement by blocking the National Highways.