HYDERABAD: The BRS accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of 'taking orders’ from N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Telugu Desam president who took oath as the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, and putting the interests of Telangana at stake in Naidu’s hands.
BRS leaders Peddi Sudarshan Reddy and Balka Suman, speaking to reporters, said Naidu declared the other day that he had put a condition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that unless seven mandals in Khammam were merged with AP in 2014, he would not take oath as Chief Minister, a demand that Modi agreed to and implemented.
Revanth Reddy must stand up to Naidu and, as per the Congress ally CPI’s demands, merge the five gram panchayats in Bhadrachalam Rural mandal — Yatapaka, Kannaigudem, Purushottapatnam, Gundala, Pichukalapadu — back into Telangana from where they were merged with AP when the seven mandals were handed to the neighbouring state, they said.
They also said that by appointing a former AP bureaucrat, Aditya Nath Das, who worked against Telangana’s interests, as the irrigation adviser to the Telangana state government, Revanth has shown a clear indication that he began following Naidu’s instructions even before Naidu took charge as AP CM, they alleged.
