HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti will play a key role in the anticorruption movement and extend its full support to the civil society's leadership, party Politburo member and former MP B Vinod Kumar has announced.Condemning Anna Hazare's arrest, the TRS leader told reporters at Telangana Bhavan here on Tuesday that his party demanded unconditional and immediate release of Hazare. He also expressed surprise at Union home minister P Chidambaram's description of Anna Hazare's arrest as a painful action, saying it exposed UPA government's double talk.Vinod Kumar alleged that the Congress-led UPA government was continuing to adopt double standards on the Jan Lokpal Bill and the reference of the bill to parliamentary standing committee was only to delay or stall it. In spite of the support offered by all parties for passage of the bill in the current session, the government was hesitating, he alleged.Vinod Kumar blamed corrupt leaders and power politics for the UPA government's reluctance to grant statehood to the Telangana region and lamented that corruption was not allowing unscrupulous elements to amass wealth but was also suppressing long-standing democratic aspirations of people.Referring to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy properties case, he said that about 26 to 30 Seemandhra companies, which had been benefited by the YSR government with allotment of lands in and around Hyderabad, invested their monies in Jagan's companies."Due to the these corrupt practices, a handful of Seemandhra leaders were thwarting Telangana state formation," he alleged and attributed this factor to Telangana people's participation in the anti-corruption movement.Ridiculing TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu for taking anti-corruption stance, the TRS leader said administration and politics in the state had become highly corrupt with the advent of Naidu's chief ministership.
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