Clarify TDP's Telangana Stance: Nagam

After the Uma-Vamsi and Naidu-Harikrisha controversies, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Nagam Janardhan Reddy, backed by the media, has taken it upon himself to keep alive the storm in the TDP's cup of embroilment.

With the forthcoming Kadapa by-elections serving as a conducive backdrop for leaders to gain mileage through political histrionics, Nagam's anti-campaigning stance has led his party colleagues to accuse him of being a rebel. Members of the TDP have reportedly expressed doubts about his loyalty to the TDP, and have accused him of being YSR Congress Party President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's aide.

Earlier, Nagam had refused to participate in the TDP Kadapa and Pulivendula by-elections campaigning, stating that he would focus on intensifying the Telangana agitation instead. And after TDP's opposition to his proposed "Bus Yatra", he has called for public meetings, starting from 9th May, to "reinforce the Telangana movement".

Commenting on being labled as the "troublemaker" by the TDP and the media alike, Nagam said that he is drawing flak just because of TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu's ambivalent stance on the issue of Telangana.

"TDP leaders have earlier been involved in the Samaikhya Andhra movement. It is Naidu's responsibility to clarify the party's tendency with regards to the Telangana movement. The controversies shrouding the TDP cannot be assuaged until he (Naidu) claims a definite stance," the PAC Chairman said.

Proclaiming that "Telangana is his birthright", Nagam stated, "People who don't participate in the struggle for a separate Telangana, don't deserve to be a part of the neo-state," a clear pointer to the party chief.