Storm clouds over TDP-BJP pact moving to Telangana HYDERABAD: A day after the storm clouds over the TDP-BJP alliance in Seemandhra cleared, BJP Telangana unit chief G Kishan Reddy created a controversy on Saturday by endorsing the popular belief in Telangana that TDP is anti-Telangana.
Replying to a question at a press conference, Reddy said: 'We have never certified that TDP is not anti-Telangana'.
Kishan, who opposed his party's alliance with the TDP, was responding to a question on TJAC's call to people to boycott the TDP in the elections. 'It is their decision and I have nothing to say. I am not TDP's spokesman to respond to TJAC's charges,' he quipped.
Taking exception to TRS describing the TDP-BJP alliance 'unholy', Kishan said the TRS had no moral right to comment on BJP's alliance with TDP.
'We have joined hands with TDP keeping the nation's interests in mind. Moreover, Telangana state has become a reality and talking about the past is of no use as everyone should try to concentrate on the development of the new state rather than blame each other.'
He said the TRS had admitted several leaders of various parties who opposed statehood to Telangana state but was questioning TDP-BJP alliance now.
'If TRS joined hands with the CPM, which opposed bifurcation, was it not unholy? When it joined hands with TDP in 2009, was it not anti-Telangana?'.
News Posted: 20 April, 2014
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