Hyderabad, December 11: TDP politburo member Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, while giving an interview to a Telugu channel, said that the TDP stand for separate Telangana is clear and it would support the resolution when it would be moved in AP assembly and Parliament.
TDP is of the opinion that the separate Telangana should be formed sans violence. He said though a Congress government is at the center, then too a public movement was forcibly kept on denying and this is how people were deprived of their rights.
Replying a question, Mr. Khan said that it is wrong conception that Muslims are not associated with Telangana movement as just yesterday, Muslims showed their solidarity with fasting leader KCR. Now the formation of separate Telangana would not be any hindrance either for the government or any political party.
He recalled that in 1956, Telangana became the part of Andhra Pradesh on a promise that it would not be separated as long as the people of both the region would like to live together.
Mr. Khan added that the percentage of Muslims in AP is meager 9% whereas it would attain a considerable 25% post formation of Telangana. This is how Muslims will gain the status of kingmakers once again. He blamed Congress for delaying the matter beyond control.
If Congress had taken the appropriate steps at appropriate time, the unrest of the students would not have arisen at all.
As the demand of separate Telangana gained momentum, a general feeling was that Muslims are not the part of the movement whereas according to Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Muslims were always part and parcel of the demand and were sentimentally related.
Thanks to the High Command as better sense prevailed and Telangana dream is soon going to be realized in the true sense of better late than never.
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