‘It hurts to see a foreigner at helm’

AT 96, BJP MP from Bidar Ramachandra Veerappa says his party should heed the janadesh. ‘‘It hurts me after all those years of stru...

AT 96, BJP MP from Bidar Ramachandra Veerappa says his party should heed the janadesh. ‘‘It hurts me after all those years of struggling with the British to see a foreigner in charge today. But if that is the will of the people, then so be it,’’ says Veerappa, elected from Bidar for the 10th time.

‘‘Honi ko kaun taal sakta hai. If Vajpayeeji has stepped down, who are we to complain?’’ says Veerappa.

The oldest elected candidate in elections 2004, is coming to Delhi tomorrow and will head straight to AIIMS for a check-up before he takes oath as MP. That he was a two-time MLA from the Congress does not come in the way of his attack of the party in not spelling out the leader’s name before.

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Veerappa began his political career in the 30s but became a marked man when he opposed the Razzakars planting bombs against the Nizam of Hyderabad and was sentenced for life at the infamous Kalapani, until Vallabbhai Patel’s announcement annexing Hyderabad to India.

A free man, Veerappa opted for the Congress and became an MLC, and then an MLA till he changed course and joined the BJP.

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