Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bandaru Dattatreya on Saturday ridiculed Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for his comments made in Assembly seeking to know which region he belonged to.
Desperate to capitalize on its decision to create separate Telangana state, the Congress high command is believed to have intensified its efforts to convince the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao to merge his party with the Congress.
Looks like the war between political parties will be carried out through media in the coming days. The parties are vying to plant stories about rival political parties in the media at the slightest possible provocation.
Vatti Vasantha Kumar has said that the Union Home Minister would have assumed that there was a common opinion about Telangana after getting letters from the TDP and YSRCP.
Naidu, who is now desperate to stage a comeback, is adopting similar strategy now. He is in direct touch with the top brass of the saffron party through his old, trusted friend M Venkaiah Naidu while completely ignoring the opinion of the state unit.
The Seemandhra members of the TDP frequently interrupted the YSRCP floor leader YS Vijayamma when she was speaking in the House, demanding that a resolution be passed in favour of keeping the state united.
Though the close aides of the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy have been planting stories in the media for some time now about his plans to float a new party, the indications on the ground do not point towards such a possibility.
Claiming that the TDP's threat of laying seize to the Chief Minister’s residence has forced the government to provide data on Telangana bill, Kesav said Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy had given an assurance to this effect.
Devineni said the Speaker should take note of the members’ views through voting, then only dramas of YSRCP president Jaganmohan Reddy and Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy would get exposed.
TRS floor leader Etela Rajender lashed out at the critics for making false propaganda against the TRS that it was creating hurdles in the formation of a separate Telangana state.
There was a time when JP was considered to be an intellectual who was politically unbiased and who had a set of morals and values. But in the recent times, he has come under scathing criticism especially when he copied the TDP’s stand on the sensitive Telangana issue.
