Former MP G. Vivekanand has launched a scathing attack against TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for betraying him with the promise of a party ticket to contest from Peddapalli parliamentary constituency and now reneging on it.
Mr. Vivekanand, who had resigned from the post of government adviser following the denial on Friday night, held a meeting with his supporters in the Godavarikhani coal belt area on Saturday to chalk out his future course of action.
‘Didn’t ask for it’
In a brief chat with newsmen, he charged he was betrayed by the TRS by not offering the party ticket from Peddapalli. “I did not ask for the ticket, but the party leaders promised and later they deceived,” he alleged.
“However, now I am liberated from the slavery,” he alleged.
The Chief Minister had promised to name Peddapalli district after senior Congress leader and veteran parliamentarian G. Venkat Swamy, but he cheated again, Mr. Vivekanand (son of Mr. Venkat Swamy) alleged and reminded that his father had even staged a walk-out from the Congress Working Committee meeting for the cause of a separate Telangana and added Mr. Swamy had also demanded inclusion of creating a separate Telangana in the UPA election manifesto.
Further, he said the then CLP leader Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had opposed a pre-poll alliance with the TRS but Mr. Venkat Swamy prevailed upon the then AICC president Sonia Gandhi and forged an alliance with TRS in the 2004 elections.
Refuting allegations that he tried for the defeat of TRS candidates in the Peddapalli Parliament constituency, he challenged, “If they prove the charges, I would leave politics forever. If not, the party should suspend me,” he said..
Responding to a query about which party he would join, he said several parties are asking him to join them. “However, I will take a decision only after consulting my supporters,” he said.
Reminding about his role during the statehood movement, he said he had strived for the passage of Telangana statehood Bills in the Parliament by talking to all the MPs.
Mr. Vivekanand claimed he had ensured the waiver of ₹10,000-crore loans by the Union Government to the Fertilizer Corporation of India (FCI) Ramagundam plant and its revival as Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals limited (RFCL).
