TDP to clarify its stand on Telangana within two days: Errabelli

Telugu Desam Telangana Forum Convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Saturday stated that party president N Chandrababu Naidu would give clarity on the Telangana statehood issue within two days.

Talking to media persons at NTR Trust Bhavan, Errabelli Dayakar Rao said that the party would announce its stand on the Telangana issue after Naidu holding consultations with the leaders of all three regions.

Dayakar Rao alleged that the entire North Telangana region has turned into a desert as the government failed to argue strongly over Babli issue with Maharashtra. He demanded that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy discuss the issue with his Maharashtra counterpart during the Chief Ministers conference to be convened on September 18.

The TDP leader also predicted that the YSRCP would merge with the Congress soon. “They are moving in the same direction since the Presidential polls,” he said. Coming down heavily on the ministers attending book release function of KVP Ramachandra Rao in New Delhi, he pointed out the ministers have no time to get funds from the Centre on the people’s problems, but they are spending time on book release events. He alleged that KVP organised the programme to show his strength and to resort blackmail tactics.

Responding to reports over handing over of responsibilities of party to Naidu’s son Lokesh, he refuted the reports and described them as baseless and far from truth. On Naidu’s Padayatra scheduled to begin on October 2, he said that he had asked Naidu to start padayatra from Telangana region.