Express News Service
First Published : 03 Jan 2010 03:10:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 03 Jan 2010 10:21:54 AM IST
HYDERABAD: With just three days to go for the all-party meeting called by the Centre on T-issue, the TDP once again presented before the media its split personality on the bifurcation issue.
While its Telangana leaders fully endorsed the JAC’s viewpoint and decided to exert pressure on the Centre to achieve a separate State, the Andhra leaders demanded postponement of the meeting till “normalcy prevailed in the State’’.
Further, the Andhra leaders decided to release a white paper in a couple days on the “development of the three regions’’ which indicates that they will argue that Telangana witnessed rapid progress as compared to Srikakulam, Anantapur and other districts.
The January 5 meeting could well see the TDP continue in the same vein, presenting diametrically opposite views.
The Andhra TDP leaders are to participate in the Andhra bandh on January 4, while the Telangana leaders will take part in the agitations announced by the JAC and also support the Vidyardhi Garjana on the Osmania University campus.
Going along with the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of political parties, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLAs have decided to insist on the acceptance of their resignations by the Assembly Speaker as this would be the only way to exert pressure on the Centre for statehood.
Speaking to reporters here today, TDP politburo member N Janardhan Reddy urged the JAC to convene a meeting of MLAs and MPs of all parties and direct all the MLAs to tender their resignations to the Speaker.
He also demanded unconditional lifting of all cases registered against students as assured by the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, and deplored the filing of new cases despite the home minister’s assurance to the contrary.
Questioning the sincerity of ministers who had withdrawn their resignations, Janardhan Reddy asked why they had sent a single sheet to the AICC president, instead of separate letters. Meanwhile, TDP leaders from Andhra and Rayalaseema have demanded that the proposed January 5 meeting be postponed as the situation in the State was “still volatile’.
At a separate press meet, legislators D Narendra Kumar, B Gopalakrishna Reddy and others opposed the Jan 5 meeting at this juncture as the people of both the regions were “emotionally charged’’. They blamed AICC president Sonia Gandhi for the turmoil in the State and also urged the State Government to publicise a white paper stating expenditures on three regions of the State right since its formation.
At another press conference, politburo member K Yerran Naidu said the TDP would release a district-wise white paper on development of all regions from 1953 to 2009, including budgetary allocations, growth rate and other details.
He maintained that the three north coastal Andhra districts were the most backward, as per the “latest statistics’’ released by the government.
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