New Delhi, December 03: With the agitation for separate Telangana intensifying in Andhra Pradesh, the BJP today exerted pressure on the Centre to bring a bill for carving out a new state and accused Congress of “betraying” people of the region.
Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Prakash Javdekar said, “If the government brings a bill for separate Telangana, we will support it without doing the vote politics.”
He said while the demand for creation of Telangana has been there for last 50 years, the Congress in 2004 had assured its erstwhile ally TRS that the separate state would be formed.
“They came into power. But they never brought the bill…
TRS kept on hoping that Madam (Sonia Gandhi) would do something but nothing happened,” Javdekar said.
–PTI