Lagadapati hits out at Congress

Hyderabad: After Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal criticised his party high command.

Lagadapati, while speaking to the media on Sunday, said that the Congress was behaving like a regional party in the state bifurcation issue. He opined that the Telangana Bill would not be tabled in Parliament during the Winter Session.

He felt that the decision to bifurcate the state was a serious blunder committed by the Congress in its 125-year-old history.

He alleged that the party high command took the decision after conspiring with a separatist party on the one hand and its adopted son on the other.

Lagadapati sought to know if there was a national policy to bifurcate any state. He added that though the country was watching the process of bifurcation of a state, the demand for a united Andhra Pradesh would prevail.

Lagadapati said it was impossible for anybody to replace Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and added that the CM was strongly advocating united AP and making every effort to keep the state united. Lagadapati alleged that the Congress high command was deceiving the Telugu people who elected it to power twice.

The Vijayawada MP was confident that the situation might change after elections in five states are completed. After the polls, several parties would distance themselves from the Congress, and the survival of the UPA government would become a question mark.