Bye-election to the seven Lok Sabha seats, including four in Andhra Pradesh, and 22 assembly seats spread over seven states would be held next month, the Election Commission announced . Elections to four Lok Sabha seats -- Karimnagar, Hanamkonda, Warangal and Adilabad -- and 18 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh following resignation by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) members would be held on May 29.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu fired his first salvo by declaring that his party was not against the demand for Telangana state. Naidu pointed out that there were different opinions even in the Telangana region. “There are people who are demanding separate state and there are others who are not in favour of the such idea”, he said explaining why the party was not able to take a clear stand on the issue.
TRS president K.Chandrasekhar Rao accused that though the flags of Congress and TDP are different, their agenda was the same. He told newsmen that these two parties are colluding together into a “joint venture” to defeat his party candidates in the coming byelections so that to claim later there was no Telangana sentiment
BJP former president M Venkaiah Naidu said that the byelections will not decide the fate of separate statehood for Telangana. Speaking to newsmen at Vijayawada he said that the fate of Telangana will be decided only in the general elections in 2009.
Reiterating his commitment to the formation of a separate Telangana, Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president D Srinivas said for him party is more important than Telangana.
Source: telangana.com
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