Hyderabad, March 23: Launching a vitriolic attack on the CPM yesterday, Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhara Rao wondered why the Left party had failed to elect a Telanganite as its state secretary at least once in its long history.
The TRS chief, in a ‘kind’ gesture that would humiliate the Left party, offered to compensate the monthly salary for four CPM whole-timers who joined the TRS along with scores of other CPM workers from Ranga Reddy district.
Admitting the CPM workers into his party, Rao said the CPM whole-timers quit the party forgoing their monthly salaries given by the CPM and joined the TRS today for the Telangana cause. “The TRS recognises their sacrifice. I will ask our party leaders to provide succour to them from the party headquarters,” Rao declared amid loud cheers from the audience. In spite of the CPM having a strong cadre base in Nalgonda and its only MLA having been elected was from that district, that party was not focusing the fluoride and other problems being faced by lakhs of people in Nalgonda, Rao alleged. “Leave alone Telangana, the CPM is not even fighting for the genuine problems of the locals.’’
On the regional bias in the CPM, Rao alleged that no Telanganite had been made the party’s state secretary so far. “Go to Sundaraiah Bhavan, you will find no Telanganite there,” he alleged and accused the party of not providing jobs to Telangana youth in the CPM’s mouthpiece, Prajasakti.
Referring to the Telangana movement, Rao said that it reached a decisive stage and statehood for the region would be achieved very soon. He rolled out ambitious plans for the future ‘Telangana state’. “Vikarabad will be declared a separate district and a satellite township developed 100 km away from Hyderabad.
Hyderabad has been developed but not to the extent expected. Once Telangana state comes into being, the city will be developed multi-fold and the land values will jump from `1 crore to `15 crore.’’ Pharmaceutical and other industries would be established in the new state, he said and alleged that Mahaboobnagar had lost `1 lakh crore under the rule of Andhras.
—Agencies