Hyderabad, Sept.21 (Maxim News): TRS MP B Vinod Kumar today severely condemned AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad’s comments that the TRS had played no role in achieving statehood for Telangana.
Addressing the media here today, Vinod Kumar slammed Azad for making ridiculous comments. Azad’s remarks against the TRS and its supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao are meaningless and mischievous, he fumed.
It may be recalled here that Gulam Nabi Azad alleged in Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday that the TRS had no role in achieving the statehood and it was the Congress that conceded it. The Congress leaders were resorting to mud-slinging just to divert and misguide people of their misgivings, Vinod rebutted. The TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao, who strove for statehood had convinced 32 parties in Delhi at the national level and made the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre to concede statehood to Telangana.
Vinod asserted that then Congress government at the Centre did not give statehood to Telangana with love or affection but under unavoidable circumstances. He said the Congress leader perhaps forgot that the UPA Government had withdrawn its statement on the statehood. He also said with the Telugu Desam and the Congress from Andhra Pradesh stiffly opposing statehood, the Centre had to accord statehood to Telangana. Then in 2014 general elections, the Congress had a truck with the TRS to gain politically, he recalled.
At the behest of then chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, then AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi had suppressed the statehood movement that continued for 14 years with several protests, Million March, rail roko, Sagara Harama and others, he said. The Congress leaders in Telangana had failed even to talk against Rajasekhar Reddy and other top leaders for protecting their own interests. But the power crazy Cngress leaders, after formation of Telangana, continued to create hurdles to development despite efforts for welfare and progress by the TRS Government, he added.
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