Babu plans ‘kallu compound campaign’ against KCR

VV Balakrishna
Express News Service
Last Updated : 24 Sep 2011 11:01:53 AM IST

HYDERABAD: At a time when Telangana is bristling with agitations and protests and Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is calling the shots, Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu is quietly making moves to pull the carpet from under the feet of KCR.

The TDP chief is meeting members of backward castes, particularly Gouds, from the region and egging on them to `expose' the TRS chief who has more or less become synonymous with the Telangana movement.

Naidu assured Gouds that toddy would be detached from the excise and attached to the cooperative department.

"If TDP is voted to power, it will give toddy societies a free hand, and officials will not meddle in their affairs," he assured them.

He was joined in his efforts by senior party leaders, instigating the BCs to paint KCR as anti-BCs and conduct a `whisper campaign' against him at `kallu compounds' across the region.

``BCs are the backbone of TDP and they should support it which is the only party that protects their rights,'' was the common promise they all made to them.

Terming the Congress and YSRC as the parties belonging to "patwaris", TDP senior leader T Devender Goud said TDP was the only party which served the interests of BCs.

"TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is vindictive to BCs.

If we support such a leader, it will again lead to political slavery in the region.

The TDP stands for separate Telangana state," Goud claimed and alleged that the TRS was, in the name of T movement, trying to eliminate the TDP.

"BCs, particularly Gouds, should spread this message till the next elections,'' he appealed to them.

"Though there were no transport facilities, a large number of Gouds attended the meeting. This proved BCs' loyalty to TDP," Goud added.