Even as alliance partners Telugu Desam and BJP are trying to forge unity to corner the government in Assembly when it meets for the budget session from November 5, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu will address a meeting of the legislature party of Telangana at NTR Bhavan here on Monday.
According to Telangana TDP president L. Ramana, the meeting will chalk out the strategy to be adopted in the Assembly. Asked if TDP would have floor coordination with BJP, Mr. Ramana told The Hindu that it was the normal practice for the Opposition to have such an arrangement.
The BJP legislature party leader K. Laxman told reporters separately that the party will coordinate with other parties in taking up the cause of distressed farmers due to crop failure.
Mr. Naidu interacted with Mr. Ramana and other leaders over the Assembly session on Sunday. The latter said the issues like membership drive to be launched by the party and the recent visit of Telangana TDP leaders to Delhi to meet Union Ministers and Cotton Corporation of India chairman to discuss farmers’ problems figured in the discussions. Mr. Naidu advised the TDP leaders to raise burning public issues like suicide by farmers and represent the voice of the affected families in the Assembly.
He said issues such as farmers’ suicide, power crisis in Telangana, the memo issued by TS government to Collectors which made 40 per cent of people ineligible to get ration cards and Hyderabad Metro Rail project would also be raised in the Assembly.
Mr. Laxman told a press conference that the TRS government failed to take the help of BJP-led NDA government at the Centre in resolving public issues.
Much of the problems in Telangana would have been resolved if TRS was friendly with the Centre.
The Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, will neither visit New Delhi to take up the problems with the Centre nor meet Union Ministers when they were in the city.
Mr. Rao was more interested in strengthening TRS by encouraging defections. He gave a go by to administration.
