TDP to say 'Jai Telangana' at all party meet

Hyderabad: The TDP, which is in a mood to fight back, is understood to have taken a firm decision on the issue of bifurcation of the state and is likely to say ' Jai Telangana' at the all party-meeting convened by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at New Delhi on December 28.

It also is said to have decided to send only one representative for the meeting. In all probability, the party senior leader Motkupalli Narsimhulu is likely to attend the meeting.

Highly placed sources from both Telangana and Seemandhra in the party told that party president N Chandrababu Naidu held series of tele-conferences with leaders from the three regions to elicit their opinion on Telangana statehood after the Centre announced the date for the all-party meeting.

However, they declined to be named. During interaction with his party leaders of the three regions, Naidu is said to have received positive response from Seemandhra leaders who assured him that they would abide by whatever decision may be taken by the party at the meeting.

They also reportedly told Naidu that the next General Election is 'a do or die battle for the party' and any decision taken on the contentious issue should help the party to come out of the persisting crisis.

The party leaders also said to have informed Naidu that if the party took a decision in favour of Telangana, the TDP would regain its lost ground in the T region which had always been considered as bastion of Telugu Desam since its formation in 1983.

Sources said the TDP had also almost come to the conclusion that it would go with a single point agenda i.e. 'Telangana statehood.' The party, which has been maintaining a 'two- eye theory' on the bifurcation of state will shed its double standard on T issue from December 28.

Narasimhulu told that the TDP was the first political party which demanded an all- party meeting and Naidu also wrote to Prime minister Manmohan Singh in September asking for it. He said Naidu, respecting the sentiments and aspirations of Telangana people, gave up his two-eye theory and decided to stick to one stand.'

He said the party would definitely give a shock to the Congress and TRS through the party's 'historical' declaration on state bifurcation at the all-party meeting.

Sources said the TDP was also desperate to expose unholy alliance struck between ruling Congress and TRS and the conspiracy to destabilise the TDP in its strongholds in Telangana. 'Once, the TDP makes its stand clear before the Home Minister, it will take up Telangana issue as its main political agenda in the region till 2014 election.'