Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP, K. Keshava Rao, said that the Telangana Congress leaders were prepared to go to any extent to achieve separate Telangana State and uphold their promise made to the people of the region.
Mr. Keshava Rao was in Karimnagar district to attend a private function in Jagtial town on Sunday and had a brief halt at R&B guest house. Talking to newsmen, he said that the government had already announced formation of separate Telangana State on December 9, 2009. “However, my own friends (seemandhra leaders) have sabotaged the carving out of separate State”, he said.
“We have spoken a lot about Telangana. Now, it is time to get back our own State by any cost and uphold the image and self-respect of the Telangana region,” he said. To a query, he said that he had opposed the second States Reorganisation Committee for Telangana when he was APCC president. The party high command had already respected the first SRC recommendations for the formation of Telangana State.
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Reiterating that the Congress party high command was for Telangana, he said that the party not taking any action against the Congress leaders for demanding separate Telangana State indicates its stand on Telangana. On the other hand, the TDP had sacked its legislator Nagam Janardhan Reddy for raising the voice for separate Telangana State, he said and alleged that the TDP was trying to sabotage the Telangana movement. He demanded that the TDP president, N Chandrababu Naidu, write a letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram disclosing his stand on Telangana .