TDP for Telangana, says Yerran Naidu

Senior  Telugu Desam  leader Yerran Naidu,  a  vociferous  supporter of  integrated Andhra Pradesh suddenly changed his tune on Thursday saying his party is committed to separate Telangana.

In a recent interview to a TV channel, the leader from Srikakulam said, ``There is no change in our stand. It is my personal feeling that the state remains united, but I will abide by the party’s decision.”

Of late, the Tdp too is following the Congress path. Its members are expressing their individual views in public, contrary to the party’s  known stand. But  the leaders are ready to justify  their statement  saying they have the freedom  in their  party to express their personal opinions.

According to sources,  it is a strategy, which the Tdp is adopting to woo the voters of Telangana in the ensuing by-elections. It is learnt that Yerran might have received a message from party president N Chandrababu Naidu to tone down his anti-Telangana rhetoric and make some positive remarks, so that it would help the party go smooth in the ensuing by-elections in Telangana region.

The question that intrigues the public mind is whether the party, which backed out of its commitment in the State Assembly, would stand by the word for separate Telangana. Next, the common man is puzzled by the stoic silence the Tdp supremo has adopted with regard to the Telangana statehod issue.