Hyderabad,
Dec 31: Gade Venkat Reddy, a Seemandhra Congress leader, who
participated in the recent all-party meeting in New Delhi on December 28
on Telangana issue as a representative of the Congress from the
Seemandhra region asserted that Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde
had not said that the Congress was in favour of division of the State.
He also said that he would retire from politics if anybody proved that
Sushil Kumar Shinde had announced that the Congress was inclined to
divide the State.
Speaking to the media at the CLP office
here on Monday, Gade said he batted for the United Andhra Pradesh and
argued in favor of Samaikyandhra and K R Suresh Reddy argued in favor of
separate Telangana State. Gade said there was no truth in the reports
published by a section of the media that Sushil Kumar Shinde did not
allow him to speak at the meeting.
Faulting K R Suresh
Reddy’s statement that Shinde had said that the Congress was in favour
of division of the State, Gade said, “I am sorry to say that he twisted
the facts”. Reiterating that there was no unanimous opinion in the
Congress party on Telangana issue, Gade said he would stick to whatever
decision taken by the party high command though he was a staunch
integrationist.
Alleging that the TDP had adopted
separate Telangana stand only to disturb the Congress politically as it
was done in 2009 elections by entering into an alliance with the TRS, he
said the TDP and CPI were adopting opportunistic political policy on
Telangana issue by changing their stand now and then. He said there was
no need to bother about YSRCP, which said nothing at all-party meeting.
The
Seemandhra leader said the Congress high command directed the Congress
representatives to express their individual views and it was not correct
to say that the Congress was for division of the State. He said the
Congress was not a sub-regional party to have consensus.
He
said the Centre was the final authority to take a decision on Telangana
issue and all have to abide by it. He felt that the TDP would face
severe repercussions soon for agreeing division of the State. He also
quoted former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s statement that division of
the State was not correct.
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