Telugu Desam member Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy on Friday said his party had not changed its stand supporting separate Telangana and asked all parties that were wavering on the issue to introspect.
Participating in the debate on bifurcation Bill, he said the party had taken the decision out of respect for the sentiments of the people of Telangana. However, he demanded that the Congress led government at the Centre to quit as it had referred to the President a faulty Bill on bifurcation because the State government was opposed to it.
The Congress adopted double standards as it won the 2004 elections promising bifurcation but did not keep the word. On the other hand, the TDP went to polls then on the plank of integrated State and changed the stand in tune with the aspirations of people.
Turning to YSR Congress, Mr. Reddy said the party expressed support to Telangana State at its convention in Idupulapaya a couple of years ago and followed it up with a letter to Union Home Minister S.K. Shinde in December 2012. However, the party changed its stand now with the objective to target TDP because it had base in both Telangana and Seemandhra.
In the wake of a remark by Mr. Reddy that YSR Congress will bail out Congress in the elections as the latter would be a washout in Seemandhra, Agriculture Minister K. Laxminarayana reminded that it was N. Chandrababu Naidu and Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy who were in collusion because both of them were offshoots of Congress.
