Hyderabad, July 21: Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and former member of Parliament Ravindra Naik today shot off another letter to party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, asking him to hold an emergency meeting of the party’s State Committee to discuss various issues confronting the party.
In the second open letter by Naik, which was released to the media here, Naik alleged that Rao had deceived the dissident leaders by admitting them into the party.
Naik’s first open letter to Rao sought answers to 15 questions. Soon, he was beaten up by partymen at Telangana Bhavan, the party’s headquarters, and later expelled from the party. With the intervention of the city court, Naik and other expelled leaders were re-admitted to the party.
“Chandrasekhar Rao convinced us that he would convene a meeting and discuss various issues. But even after 20 days, he did not take any step to fulfil his promise,’’ Naik alleged in the latest missive.
Objecting to Rao’s style of functioning with regard to GHMC elections, he said, “At a time when the Congress and TDP are fighting the GHMC elections by proclaiming that the Telangana sentiment did not exist in the Greater Hyderabad limits, the silence of Rao is strange and not justifiable.’’ Several senior leaders like Capt Lakshmikanta Rao were in deep despair over the functioning of the party chief, he alleged.
While Lakshmikanta Rao is continuing his confabulations with his close aides, another dissident leader Rahman has met Congress leaders in the city.
These developments confirm the thinking in political circles that the dissident activity in the TRS has not died down. Keeping the rank and file in a confused state, the party leadership has not yet revealed its strategy for, or at least the intention of, fighting the GHMC elections.
Meanwhile, TRS leader Nayani Narasimha Reddy has asked TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu to make his stand clear on the Telangana statehood issue. Accusing the TDP of adopting double-standards on the issue with an eye on the GHMC elections, Reddy wanted TDP to make its stand clear whether it was committed to separate Telangana or not.
–Agencies—