Let’s divide AP, Telangana a historic necessity: Naidu

In a major shift from its policy, the Telugu Desam Party for the first time took a pro-Telangana stand and said it was in favour of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

In a major shift from its policy, the Telugu Desam Party on Thursday for the first time took a pro-Telangana stand and said it was in favour of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

“In deference to the sentiments of the people of the region, the Telugu Desam supports the demand for a separate statehood to Telangana,” the party Politburo said in its one-page resolution.

Announcing the decision at the party headquarters in Hyderabad, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu said Telangana was a ‘historic necessity’ and ‘our party has taken the right decision in this regard.’

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The TDP, which was founded by late N T Rama Rao in 1982 to safeguard the ‘Telugu pride’ and ‘self respect’, would continue to uphold these ideals and ‘we shall re-dedicate ourselves to the Telugu people,’ Naidu said.

The TDP’s pro-Telangana stand was not taken for any political aims, he asserted, adding that the party had conducted an elaborate exercise for over two-and-a-half years on the ‘sensitive’ issue.

“We do not take certain decisions only for political gains. We go by the people’s wishes and respect them,” Naidu said.

The TDP will do whatever required ‘legally, constitutionally and politically’ for the creation of Telangana state, he added.

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