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Respect Telangana sentiment: Jagan
India Blooms News Service
Hyderabad, July 9 (IBNS) YRS Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday played safe on the Telangana issue and said his party respects the sentiments of the activists.
"We are not in a position to give Telangana or stop Telangana. But YSR Congress respects Telangana sentiment,” said Reddy.
He hit out at the Congress-led UPA government for talking in ‘two voices’ on the issue.
"The Congress government is talking in two voices on Telanagana and it has failed to keep its own word It is responsibility of the Central government to give a solution satisfying all sections because the power to make a new state also lies only with the Central government. They have to make sure no one is unhappy like an elder who arbitrates between two groups," he said.
“I feel bad that Congress has done this to my state (Andhra Pradesh) due to their indecision and going back on decisions,” Reddy said.
On Friday, about a dozen Congress legislators and two MPs attended the first plenary of former Congress leader’s party and were even seen taking an oath, in another blow to the Andhra Pradesh’s ruling party.
The development came as a serious boost to Reddy, who had formed the YSR Congress, named after his late father YSR Reddy, one of Andhra Pradesh’s most popular politicians and a Congress leader himself who died two years ago in a helicopter crash.
Reddy had exited the Congress in November 2010, saying that he was hurt and slighted by Sonia Gandhi and the Congress party for not being allowed to go on an 'odarpu yatra' to console the families that lost a dear one in his father's death.
On Friday’s function organised in Kadapa by Reddy, the 14 Congress members were also seen taking an oath that they would abide the policies and programmes of the YSR Congress, media reports said.
Meanwhile for the Congress, which already has a deadlock on its hands in the state with several of its MLAs and MPs resigning en masse over the demand for statehood for the Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region, the seeming rebellion came as yet another blow.
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