Hyderabad, August 18: TRS MLA Jupally Krishna Rao on Saturday stated the Telangana leaders were not raising any new demand and demanding statehood for the region as it existed before the formation of Andhra Pradesh.
Talking to media persons, Krishna Rao came down heavily on Telugu Desam Party leader from Rayalaseema Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy for raising the demand on Rayalaseema State formation at a time when the Centre was about to take a decision on the Telangana issue. He said, “It is not good for Seemandhra leaders to scuttle the chances of Telangana state formation by raising demands for other States”.
He asked Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy to demand for Rayalaseema State as it was before it was merged with Andhra State.
Krishna Rao claimed that the people of Seemandhra region were not against the formation of Telangana state. However, he said that a section of people’s representatives and capitalists from the region were opposing the formation of Telangana state to protect their own interests.
Meanwhile, Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy has demanded the political parties to make their stand clear on the Rayalaseema state. He said that he would write a letter to all parties seeking their stand on the Rayalaseema statehood. He appealed to TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu to mention the pathetic condition of Rayalaseema in his letter to the Centre compared to the Telangana region and do justice to the region.
Byreddy said that he would announce his future course of strategy to be adopted on the Rayalaseema after convening a meeting with the leaders from the region.
- INN
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