Telangana Congress in for a split?
Hyderabad: Is the Telangana Congress heading for a split? If the development in the last two days is any indication, the answer seems to be a big yes. While the MPs from Telangana want to go aggressive in the ongoing Sakala Janula Samme, the State ministers and some MLAs want to be more restraint.
Ministers like D Sreedhar Babu and K Jana Reddy have said that while they supported the cause of T state, as ministers they had certain constraints, MPs like Madhu Yashki Goud, K Keshav Rao and former minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy have been making sharp criticism of these ministers and MLAs.
On Sunday, Komatireddy said that the T Congress steering committee had lost its utility. He felt the ministers had back stabbed the agitation. He said they were the biggest 'betrayers' of the T cause.
They were causing great harm to the T agitation and were proving what Seemandhra MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao had said. Rao had some time back said that the T leaders could not stay without minister's post.
Senior Congress MP K Keshav Rao held the ministers responsible for so many students committing suicides for separate state.
He also lashed at the Chief Minister for resorting to vindictive attitude when the agitation was at its peak. Such remarks fuelled protests against the ministers from the T region.
Advocates held a silent dharna in front of the house of the Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy on Sunday demanding that he not only reiterate his commitment to T state but also resign from the council of ministers.
When the police tried to arrest them, there was a scuffle between both the sides. Similarly, women T activists staged a dharna in front of Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy's house.
They were also arrested by the police. The Labour Minister had to face the wrath of T activists at Tukaram gate when he went to inaugurate a hospital at Addagutta. Eggs were thrown on his car and retaliation by the minister landed him in SC, ST Atrocities cases, being slapped against him.
News Posted: 17 October, 2011
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