Congress leader and former minister Dr P Shankar Rao has appealed to the TDP, TRS, CPI, CPM, Lok Satta and YSRCP to extend support to UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukerjee.
Speaking to the media at the CLP office on Saturday, Dr Rao said that Pranab has vast experience and he was elected five times to the Rajya Sabha and twice to Lok Sabha. He is known as trouble-shooter and best administrator.
He said that all the parties from the State have to extend their support to Pranab because he was a secular party’s candidate. NDA’s P A Sangma was not a secular leader. “Religious party has fielded Sangma as its candidate in the Presidential elections and one has to remember it”, he pointed out.
Dr Rao also addressed letters to TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao, CPM Secretary, CPI secretary seeking their support to Pranab Dada and released the same to the media.
Dr Rao said that the government has given priority to the senior IAS officer Minnie Mathew and appointed her as Chief Secretary but it should have also appointed senior IPS officer Goutham Kumar as DGP similarly. The State government got bad name by denying Goutham Kumar the DGP post, he added. (NSS)