Express News Service
Last Updated : 29 May 2011 10:53:38 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu appears to have become a changed man as far as the separate statehood demand for Telangana is concerned.
Naidu played Batukamma, a tradition of Telangana, along with a large number of women on Saturday. He also called up the Cyberabad police commissioner and requested him to drop all cases against Osmania University students who staged a protest at the entrance of Mahanadu on Friday. All the students were subsequently released by the police.
Naidu also snubbed Andhra leaders for protesting against his speech on Telangana on Friday. Further, Naidu hinted that he would discuss the T issue in the coming days and also make a reference on the statehood demand in his concluding speech on Sunday.
“All the T leaders are happy with Naidu’s speech yesterday,” said TTDF convener E Dayakar Rao. Regarding the dropping of cases against students, he said, “Police had registered ten cases against each student. Naidu told the police that they have no grudge against them and wanted their release.”
Sources said that when Andhra leaders including Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and Dadi Veerabhadra Rao protested about Naidu’s for his bold talk on Telangana, Naidu reportedly told them that he had spoken thus as it was necessary for the leaders of that region.
Meanwhile, a senior TDP leader and hard core Telanganite from Medak district attacked both Congress and TRS during a discussion on the price rise issue at the Mahanadu. Naidu initially objected to the speech by 70-year-old Gopal Reddy, a former sarpanch, on the grounds that it was deviating from the agenda. He however allowed him to speak later.
“I was a sarpanch for 25 years and had participated in the T-agitation in 1969. Naxalites blasted my house and warned me to quit TDP. But I am still with the party which developed the Telangana region,” Gopal Reddy said.
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