Hyderabad, January 04: TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao said his party would make a Dalit leader as Chief Minister and a Muslim Deputy CM and implement the “Naxal agenda” of providing food and shelter to the poor after the formation of separate Telangana state.
“I have said earlier too that we will implement the Naxal agenda after separate Telangana is formed. After all, Naxals are also human beings. They are fighting for providing food, shelter and other basic needs of the people,” he said.
He was addressing a gathering at the TRS office here after a surrendered Maoist leader, Sambasivudu, joined the regional party. Rao said several leaders of his party had worked with revolutionary outfits.
Pointing out that about 80 per cent of people in Telangana belonged to backward classes, Dalits, minorities or other such poorer sections of the society, Rao said his party would make a Dalit leader as Chief Minister of Telangana state and a Muslim as Deputy CM.
Land would be distributed to the poor and agricultural investment provided to them, he said.
Telangana people have been suppressed and atrocities committed against them since decades by the landlords, razakars (collaborators) during the Nizam rule and faced police action at the time of Independence and “non-Telangana rulers” after the formation of Andhra Pradesh, he said.
Telangana is now fighting for statehood and the Centre should keep its promise to form the separate state by introducing a Bill in the budget session of Parliament, the former Union Minister said.
Rao said ruling Congress would be routed if it invited the wrath of Telangana people by not keeping its promise to form the separate state.
Taking exception to AP Congress President D Srinivas deputing two representatives to the January 6 meeting convened by the Centre, Rao wondered how can Congress send representatives from both Telangana and non-Telangana regions.
“Srinivas belongs to Telangana. How can he send two representatives from Telangana and non-Telangana to the meeting? Is this the help he is doing to Telangana? TRS is boycotting the meet because it will be an exercise in futility if divergent views are expressed. Congress would be routed if they invited the wrath of Telangana people.”
The Union Home Ministry has convened a meeting of eight recognised political parties in Andhra Pradesh on January six to discuss the Srikrishna Committee report.
Alleging that the Centre was deliberately inviting divergent views on the issue, TRS had yesterday announced that it would boycott the meet.
Rao demanded the Centre introduce a Bill in the budget session of Parliament for formation of separate Telangana as it announced last year.
The TRS chief sought withdrawal of central security personnel deployed in large numbers in Telangana.
The TRS President said he decided to skip the January 6 meet in Delhi because the Centre may assume that there is no consensus on the statehood issue.
If the parties are allowed to send two representatives — one each from Telangana and non-Telangana regions, there would be divergent views, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Sambasivudu said he had quit the revolutionary ideology and decided to work for a separate Telangana state in a democratic way.
Addressing a gathering of Telangana Commercial Tax department employees, Rao said all Telangana employees should fight unitedly if any government employee from the region faced harassment.
–PTI