Hyderabad, April 25: It appears that the Congress will not submit its report to the BN Srikrishna Committee if one were to go by the statement of senior Telangana Congress leader and Congress Working Committee member K Keshava Rao.
Talking to mediapersons at Gandhi Bhavan today, Keshava Rao said in response to a query that there was more to the party than just Gandhi Bhavan (its State headquarters). Many ministers and Congress MPs, MLAs, MLCs and PCC office-bearers (who are members of the Telangana Region Congress Coordination Committee and Telangana Congress Monitoring Group) had already submitted reports to the committee and so it was “not proper’’ for the media to say that the party had not submitted its report to date, he maintained.
On the other hand, Congress (Nizamabad) MP Madhu Yashki Goud asserted that the AICC general secretary (referring to incharge of AP Affairs M Veerappa Moily) and APCC president (D Srinivas) had to answer for the party’s failure to submit its report to the Srikrishna Committee in spite of an announcement that the AICC would do so on behalf of the Congress.
He noted that the committee had extended the time for submission of reports by national political parties and hoped that both Congress and the main Opposition TDP would do so at the earliest.
On this occasion, the Nizamabad MP took strong exception to remarks by leaders of the State unit of the CPM remarks before the Srikrishna Committee that “communal clashes’’ would take place if the State was bifurcated.
There was no truth in the CPM’s report, he said.
On PRP leader Chiranjeevi’s proposed tour of the region, he warned that the people of Telangana would teach him a lesson for failing to stick to his statement on statehood.
——–Agencies