The YSR Congress Party has suggested actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan to get his facts right before blaming YSRC as being responsible for the bifurcation of the State.
Refuting the Jana Sena founder’s criticism of YSRC, party senior leader M.V. Mysura Reddy stated here on Friday that creation of Telangana was the result of Congress’ mishandling of the sensitive issue and the politics of conspiracy played by the TDP. Reading out excerpts from page 194 of Sri Krishna Committee report, Dr. Reddy stated that a separate group was formed in the TDP seeking statehood for Telangana after N. Chandrababu Naidu became the Chief Minister for the second time. Akin to the 1969 situation, K. Chandrasekhar Rao launched TRS in 2001 with an objective to achieve statehood for Telangana region, in the backdrop of NDA carving out Chhattisgarh, Utraranchal and Jhakhand States in 2000.
Both the BJP and TDP had claimed during their election campaign in Telangana that it was because of them the statehood to Telangana had become possible, Dr. Reddy pointed out and reminded Mr. Kalyan that he had said in the past that the BJP had influenced the Congress to announce Telangana.
