BJP leaders want no alliance with TDP

Hyderabad: Cutting across regional lines, BJP leaders have expressed unhappiness over talks of possible alliance with TDP in the state for the next elections and conveyed the same to the state party affairs incharge D Sathishji.

The issue was raised during Wednesday's core-committee meeting, where the party in-charge D Sathishji gave a patient hearing to the leaders.

According to sources, BJP MLA from Nizamabad urban constituency Y Laxminarayana raised the issue of alliance with the TDP.

'There are doubts in the minds of people that the central leadership is seriously thinking of an alliance with the TDP in the state. We at the state level do not want any alliance with the TDP as the party would have to lose if there is any such alliance,' said Laxminarayana.

After Laxminarayana, other leaders also echoed his version and said that the party had lost due to the alliance in 1998 and it would not benefit even now, said sources.

The leaders also pointed out that after the formation of Telangana, the TDP would be rooted out and the vacuum would be filled by BJP. The alliance would hamper the chances of the party in future,' added the sources.

According to sources, the BJP leader from Seemandhra Soma Veerraju was against the idea of alliance with the TDP. 'Only one section (Kamma) of leaders was showing interest in having alliance with the TDP.

Going alone would help the party as people from weaker sections have agreed to BJP's idea for bifurcation of the state,' said Veerraju, referring to M Venkaiah Naidu. He said that active workers like him were neglected and leaders belonging to a particular section were encouraged, the sources said.

The BJP leaders from Telangana have decided to go to Delhi to meet the top brass and express the mood of the people especially when doubts have been raised by various parties on the sincerity of the party.

According to sources, the in-charge Sathishji had assured state leaders that any decision on the alliance would be taken only after due consultations with them.

The in-charge has also said that party national president Rajnath Singh had assured to address a press conference in Delhi along with the state BJP leaders clarifying the stand of the party on Telangana and also on the issue of alliance, the sources added.

Meanwhile, the BJP national president cancelled his visit to Hyderabad on Wednesday, citing illness. Sources however said that the BJP president was upset with groupism in the party and was apprehensive of an ugly outcome during his visit.