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Andhra Pradesh

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Time ripe to introduce Bill on Telangana: BJP

HYDERABAD: The BJP has accused the Telugu Desam, TRS and Left parties for planning a protest in New Delhi against Babli project with a view to sabotaging the separate Telangana movement.

Former Union Minister Ch. Vidyasagar Rao and spokesperson N. Ramchander Rao told a press conference here on Tuesday that the party was not opposed to organising a protest against the project. But this was the opportune time to pressure the UPA government to introduce a Bill on Telangana. Top priority should now be accorded to the Telangana issue, as this was the last chance for passage of the Bill before the current Parliament’s term ended. They accused leaders of the four parties of being “pseudo-Telanganites”.

According to them, although the TDP had agreed to support the separate State, party president N. Chandrababu Naidu had never sought the Bill.

TDP, Left ridiculed

They felt that the Assembly election results were a clear pointer to the return of the NDA after the Lok Sabha polls. They ridiculed the Left and TDP leaders’ claims on the Third Front, saying it was ‘imaginary’ as only the Congress and the BJP were the main players at the national level.

Describing the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Lakhvi by the Pakistani authorities as “stage-managed”, they demanded Dawood Ibrahim and others sought by the government be handed over.

They urged the State to identify and deport all ‘illegal’ foreigners staying in Hyderabad and elsewhere. Lakhs of Bangladeshis and Pakistanis were staying illegally in the State, the BJP leaders alleged.

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