Venkaiah Naidu Blames Congress, TRS For T-Suicides

BJP senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday blamed the Congress and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi for the delay in formation of Telangana, a delay that apparently led to the suicides of over 1,200 students and youth.

Addressing a press conference here, Venkaiah Naidu said that the Congress and the TRS were responsible for the suicides, and must accept the responsibility.

He said that the Congress was forced to accept the Telangana demand as it had no other option. It was afraid that the BJP would grant statehood for Telangana after coming to power, and therefore gave Telangana to gain political mileage.

Venkaiah slammed the Congress and the TRS leaders for projecting him as anti-Telangana. He said the Telangana Bill in Rajya Sabha got delayed as he sought some clarifications. However, the same reason is being wrongly used to brand him as anti-Telangana, he alleged.

The BJP leader also accused TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao of making allegations on the BJP only with a fear of defeat in the elections.

"If the BJP-TDP alliance is so unsacred, then why did KCR come forward for an alliance with us earlier? KCR should not forget that he formed an alliance with the TDP once in the past. Also, he should not forget that he worked under Chandrababu Naidu when the latter was the Chief Minister," Naidu said.

Venkaiah Naidu also said that the Congress, the TRS and the YSRCP were worried over the response that the TDP-BJP alliance has been getting in both Telangana and Seemandhra.

He claimed that the Narendra Modi wave was very much prevalent in both the regions, and that the TDP-BJP alliance would form the governments in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. (INN)