HYDERABAD: War of words between Telangana and Seemandhra leaders is adding fuel to the ongoing Telangana agitation. Even chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who hails from Chittoor district, is being targeted by his partymen.Telangana Congress steering committee chairman and Rajya Sabha member K Keshava Rao on Wednesday took potshots at the chief minister for the latter’s decision to set up a tribal university and Sainik school in Seemandhra region and for making ‘attempts’ to dilute the Telangana movement.He asked Kiran Kumar Reddy to explain the reasons to shift the proposed university and school to Andhra region though they were earlier proposed to be set up in Telangana region.Talking to newsmen at his residence here on Wednesday, Keshava Rao criticised a section of the print and electronic media controlled by Seemandhra people for spreading ‘false information’ and misleading the people on the issue.He asserted that there were no differences among the Telangana Congress leaders, including the ministers and there was no going back on resignations issue.He said the media has ‘distorted’ Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement in Beijing and in Delhi on Tuesday. Azad had said that people of both the regions could live together even after bifurcation of the state, Keshava Rao reasoned. “Even the statement of Pranab Mukherjee on Telangana was also distorted. In reality, it was Pranab who had written the CWC resolution on Telangana in 2002 and was fully aware of the Congress party’s alliance with the TRS in 2004 elections. Even Pranab Mukherjee had made it clear to the Seemandhra Congress leaders that the Centre would not go back on the statement made on December 9, 2009. He also wanted an early solution to the issue,” Keshava Rao claimed.On the other hand, Seemandhra TDP leaders K Yerran Naidu and Y Ramakrishnudu held the ruling Congress party responsible for the prevailing ‘political uncertainity’ in the state.Meanwhile, suspended TDP legislator Nagam Janardhan Reddy lashed out at TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu stating that he was the main hurdle for Telangana state.TRS Assembly floor leader E Rajender also criticised Chandrababu Naidu for going back on his party’s election manifesto favouring separate Telangana state.
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