It’s a year since the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh State was bifurcated to carve out separate Telangana State.
Everybody knows Telugu Desam Party also had its share in division of the State, as party president N Chandrababu Naidu had said umpteen times that he would stand by the letter he had written to the Centre seeking formation of Telangana State.
Now, Naidu is saying the bifurcation of the State was never expected.
He sprang a surprise on the media on Friday saying the people of Seemandhra thought that the division would not take place.
“It came as a rude shock to me and all the Seemandhra people. The impact of division on people was severe and the people felt unhappy over the way the division of the State took place,” he lamented.
The Chief Minister is apparently so disturbed with the bifurcation that he did not want to “celebrate” the formation of Andhra Pradesh on June 2.
He called upon the people of Andhra Pradesh to participate in Nava Nirmana Deeksha on June 2, i.e. on the day the division took place, to be held from 9.30 AM and it will continue for half an hour.
He asked the students, employees and people to participate in big numbers. He said that the Deeksha should be held in a manner that the persons who divided the State should feel jealous and suggested to the employees staying in Hyderabad to go to Andhra Pradesh and participate in the Deeksha. He hoped that the Deeksha would become an inspiration for the people of Andhra Pradesh State.
Obviously, Naidu is trying to gain the sympathy of the people of Seemandhra by still playing the Samaikyandhra card. If bifurcation was a shock to him, why didn’t he withdraw his letter from the Centre on supporting bifurcation before the elections and vote against the bifurcation bill in Lok Sabha?
Why didn’t he adopt a clear stand against division as YSR Congress party did? And why did he join hands with BJP which had supported the UPA in dividing the State? Well, Naidu has no answers to these questions.
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