BJP reiterates stand on Telangana

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 4. The State BJP leadership continues to remain confused on the Telangana issue with its high command directing it to go soft on the contentious subject in view of its equation with the ruling TDP here.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the spokespersons of the State unit, Mr. Kishan Reddy and Mr.P. Prabhakar and Dr.K. Laxman, MLA, said that the officer-bearers' meet was a peaceful affair and there was no rancour at the meeting over the issue. Though they kept saying confusion, if any, was in other political parties, their evasive replies to pointed questions belied their claim.

They said the State president of the party had briefed the national leadership on the developments here during the recently- concluded national convention of the party. The party would contest maximum number of seats in the panchayat elections and there had been no attempt to have an understanding with any party so far.

They said there was no threat whatsoever from the party's Telangana MLAs though they were airing their personal opinion (in favour of) on the issue of statehood for Telangana. If any, only the BJP could deliver smaller States to fulfill the aspirations of people and not any other party, they said. But when would it be in the case of Telangana, they could not say but only added that ``it will be done at the right time.''

The meeting decided to depute leaders to different districts to seek workers' opinion on the strategy in the panchayat elections, they said.

The following is the list of leaders touring the districts between June 9 and 14.

Mr.P.V. Chalapati Rao, Dr.K. Haribabu, Ms.T. Vijayalakshmi and Mr.P. Gangaiah: Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam.

Mr.U.V. Krishnam Raju, Mr.S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao, Mr. Vema, Mr.K. Srinivasa Rao, Dr.P. Prabhakar and Mr.S. Veerraju: East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna and Guntur.

Mr.B. Narasimha Rao, Mr.P. Venugopala Reddy, Dr.N. Venkataswamy and Mr.K. Shyam Prasad: Prakasam, Nellore and Chittoor.

Mr.B. Dattatreya, Mr.G. Pratap Reddy, Dr. Penchalaiah, Dr.N. Tulasi Reddy, Mr. Parthasarathi and Mr. Shanmukha: Cuddapah, Anantapur and Kurnool.

Mr.B. Bal Reddy, Mr.A.P. Jitender Reddy, Mr.N. Indrasena Reddy, Mr.G.R. Karunakar, Mr. Nagurao, Mr. Namaji, Mr.G. Kishan Reddy, Mr. Ravindranath Reddy and Mr. Ravindra Raju: Mahbubnagar, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda.

Mr.A. Narendra, Mr.S.V. Seshagiri Rao, Mr.Ch. Sambamurthy, Mr.L. Bhupathi Reddy, Dr.K. Lakshman and Mr.D. Pradeep Kumar: Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad.

Mr.Ch. Vidyasagar Rao, Mr.G. Ramakrishna Reddy, Mr.T. Venkataramana Reddy and Mr.A. Govardhan: Karimnagar.

Mr.Ch. Janga Reddy, Dr. Rajeswara Rao and Mr.M. Dharma Rao: Warangal and Khammam.

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