Greatandhra :
Going by the aggressive speeches that the TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu has been delivering during his ongoing "Atma Gourava" Yatra, one wonders whether there is any limit to the blatant lies he can tell.
In order to attract the voters in Seemandhra, Naidu has suddenly changed his tack and highlighting how the bifurcation will damage the state and cause a rift among the Telugu people.
He is even warning the UPA government that a catastrophe will befall the state if it went ahead with splitting.
It is surprising that he has conveniently forgotten about the two consent letters he had given to the Centre in 2008 and again in 2013, pledging his party's commitment to the formation of Telangana state.
Was he not aware of the consequences of the division then? Just like how CWC is the highest policy making body of the Congress, the Politburo is the highest policy making body of the TDP. And, TDP's politburo had decided in favour of Telangana as far back as 2008 while the CWC took the same decision in July, 2013.
The TDP had included the Telangana promise in its 2009 manifesto in which it assured that, if voted to power, the party would initiate all the necessary "legal and constitutional measures" to carve out Telangana state.
What measures and strategies did he have in mind then? Five years later, Naidu is now saying that splitting the state would be disastrous and that the concerns and grievances of Seemandhra people should be taken into consideration.
Was he ignorant about the political fallout then? Moreover, the TDP had even passed a pro-Telangana resolution at Mahanadu, the general body meeting of the party.
While Naidu is now attacking the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders for amassing wealth and looting the people by exploiting the Telangana sentiment.
Why did he have an electoral alliance with TRS in 2009? Was it not a crude attempt on the part of TDP to capitalize on the Telangana sentiment for electoral gains?
"Naidu's Atma Gourava Yatra is like a murderer weeping over the dead body of the victim. With what moral authority has he undertaken this yatra? He was the person who was responsible for the UPA's decision to divide the state," the YSR Congress Party President Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Y S Sharmila fumed while addressing public meetings during her ongoing "Samaikya Sankaravam" yatra to express solidarity with the cause of united Andhra Pradesh.
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