Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday expressed surprise as to why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was reacting so aggressively over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on the state bifurcation.
BJP Telangana unit president Bandi Sanjay wondered why the TRS leaders and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao were feeling the pain when Modi was exposing the Congress policies.
“Modi was trying to expose the Congress for its failure to achieve consensus among the parties during the state bifurcation and attack the party for hastily passing the bifurcation bill amidst chaos. He did not oppose Telangana but was only questioning the manner in which the bifurcation was done,” Sanjay Kumar pointed out.
He said the hue and cry being raised by the TRS leaders over the Prime Minister’s comments was a big political drama, which was enacted only to divert the attention of the people of Telangana, who were agitating against the unsavoury comments of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on the rewriting of the Constitution of India.
“The people are observing how the TRS was raising non-issues to pre-empt a debate on the conspiracies hatched by the chief minister to distort the history against which the BJP has been fighting,” he said.
He reminded that the BJP had taken a stand in favour of separate Telangana much before the TRS came into existence.
“Our party had adopted a resolution at the Kakinada conclave in 1996 in support of the bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh. The party had been committed to its slogan of one-vote-two-states since then,” he said.
Sanjay Kumar said Modi had rightly said that when the bifurcation bill was introduced, microphones were cut in Parliament, doors were shut and Congress MPs had even used pepper sprays.
