Hyderabad: Senior YSR Congress leader M.V. Mysura Reddy asked actor Pawan Kalyan how is it that he finds TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu to be a Good Samaritan now, when he had once described him as a leader who opened the doors for corruption.
The YSR Congress continued its tirade for the second day against the TD-BJP combine and Pawan Kalyan for what its leaders called baseless and malafide propaganda against their president, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Speaking to the media on Friday, Mr Mysura Reddy said that Pawan Kalyan’s criticism of the late chief minister YSR and Jagan Mohan Reddy is pure opportunism, irrelevant and meaningless. Mr Mysura Reddy read out excerpts from page 194 of the Srikrishna Committee report that said that a separate group had been formed within the TD to lobby for a separate state of Telangana after Chandrababu Naidu became chief minister for the second time.
He said that akin to the 1969 situation, K. Chandrasekhar Rao launched the Telangana Rashtra Samiti in 2001 aiming to achieve statehood for Telangana region in the backdrop of the NDA regime carving out Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand states in 2000.
“He must know that most TRS leaders had also tried to join the Congress en mass after YSR took over as chief minister for the second time,” Mr Mysura Reddy said.
He said the creation of Telangana state was the result of Congress mal-administration and politics of conspiracy by the TD. He called Pawan Kalyan joining hands with the BJP and TD unethical and opportunistic, and said the actor was making baseless allegations against YSR and Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He also said that Pawan purposefully ignored the fact that the BJP had promised to form Telangana state within three months of coming to power and that the TD gave letters twice or thrice in support of Telangana formation.
Mr Reddy said that Pawan has no moral right to criticise Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy as he had once said that Mr Chandrababu Naidu opened the doors for corruption and had described the TD as a “paper flower”. “What is the change you see in Naidu that you eulogise him now?” he asked Pawan.
