Babu’s two eyes to see as one

Express News Service
First Published : 05 Sep 2010 04:45:06 AM IST
Last Updated : 05 Sep 2010 11:10:52 AM IST

HYDERABAD: Continuing his two-eyed theory on Telangana, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu has come out with a new plan to erase the psychological divide between Andhra and Telangana people at least within his own party.

Realising that there was a psychological divide between the people of the two regions, Naidu has decided to dispatch party leaders from Andhra to Telangana and vice versa. A decision to this effect was taken at the politburo meeting of the party held here today.

As per the plan, TDP Telangana leaders would visit Andhra towns and Andhra leaders would visit Telangana areas. TDP district-wise general body meetings will be held for two days on September 16 and 18. The Andhra and Telangana senior leaders would attend the meetings.

For the last one year, the TDP leaders from Andhra and Telangana were confined to their respective regions and not attending any meeting other than their region. The present decision would help to reforge attachments with each other, a politburo member told Express.

Naidu also felt that there was a ‘lull’ in the party for quite some time due to various reasons. He wanted senior leaders to tour extensively in the districts and launch agitations against people’s issues.

Naidu said lull in the party was because of the volatile situation in the state and focus being given to YS Jagan’s Odarpu Yatra. The focus on pressing people’s problems were undermined due to these factors. Naidu wanted the seniors to identify the local issues and play a responsible role to overcome the present lull. “If we highlight the people’s issues, the party will be activated again,” Naidu observed.

When N Janardhan Reddy complained about P Keshav’s remarks on APPSC examination in the meeting, there was an heated argument between K Srihari and Kalva Srinivas. Kalva Srinivas said that when L Rajagopal, Sailajanath and other Congress leaders too were insisting for the conduct of Group-1 exam, TDP would lag behind if none of Andhra leaders expressed their views. He further said that they never uttered a word against Telangana. Naidu pacified them saying that the topic was not in the agenda.

Meanwhile, briefing the politburo deliberations, party senior leaders Y Ramakrishnudu, Kalva Srinivasulu and K Srihari said that TDP has set September 6 as deadline for the government to reimburse the students’ fee. Otherwise, the party will organise protest rallies on September 9, they said.

The politburo also demanded the Centre to order a CBI probe into the irregularities of the APIIC and suspend BP Acharya who is responsible for the irregularities.