TRS has strongly countered the Congress party’s allegations that the TRS Chief K Chandrashekar Rao had demanded the ruling Congress party for Chief Minister post, and said that the allegations were false.
Speaking to the media at Telangana Bhavan here on Thursday, party politburo member B Vinod has said that KCR had never demanded the Chief Minster post for shelving the separate Telangana State demand. He expressed anger at a section of the media for writing false reports on KCR’s New Delhi tour. He alleged that some Seemandhra media and political parties had targeted KCR, to dilute the intensity of the Telangana movement. He alleged that as part of their venomous campaign, they spread the rumor that the Congress party had gone back on the Telangana issue just because of KCR’s demand for Chief Minister’s post. He said KCR was not a person who demands positions in return for giving up the demand for Telangana state.
He recalled how KCR had left the Union Shipping Minister post and still protected the UPA-I government, as it assured Telangana State. He said that KCR had left Shipping Minister post within hours of the media spreading the news that KCR had ships and was in the shipping business. He also alleged that the media, which published the news in the past that New Delhi didn’t invite KCR, was now publishing the news that KCR demanded the Chief Minister post. He also recalled that the Union Government didn’t allocate any Department to KCR for one year even though he was inducted into Union Ministry. He said that the Union Government allotted Labor Ministry for KCR only after criticism from BJP senior leader Lal Krishna Adwani. He said media has the responsibility to check with them before writing such reports. (NSS)