YSRCP played a historic role in Assembly: Bhumana

Hyderabad, Jan 30 : Asserting that the Party has played a historic role in the Assembly in sending back the State Reorganisation Bill, YSR Congress Party has said both Kiran Kumar Reddy and N Chandrababu Naidu have played into the hands of the Congress high command and have helped in the division process till the last minute while mutually shielding each other.

“The role we have played in the assembly rejecting the Bill is historic, while the opportunist politics of Congress and TDP have been thoroughly exposed. Chief Minister, who has been all the days been helping the Centre in expediting the division bill, has also helped N Chandrababu Naidu by moving the resolution just when the TDP President was scheduled to speak on the Bill,” Party MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy told reporters here on Wednesday.

The nexus is well established. Chandrababu Naidu helped Sonia Gandhi and Congress in getting the Bill in to assembly in lieu of the Centre ignoring the corruption charges he has been facing. When the turn of Naidu has come to speak, the Chief Minister suddenly came out of is hibernation and started speaking that the Bill is full of loopholes and it should be rejected. Naidu echoes his feelings and Speaker puts the resolution of Chief Minister to voice vote.

The Chief Minister thus saved the TDP leader from the embarrassment of speaking out his stand in the Assembly where his party MLAs had given speeches that were contradictory and completely opposite. This politics of opportunism will not go well with the people, he said.

Kiran Kumar Reddy played a dubious role in the process while facilitating the Centre at all important junctures and wearing the mask of integrationist for public consumption.

YSRCP was first to react on the division process and we have taken a firm stand of a united state though we were aware that we had to face hardships in one region. We have placed the interests of people ahead of politics.

TDP and Congress had done exactly the opposite. TDP and Congress have whipped regional feelings and were silent on their stand. Naidu wanted to save his party in both regions and Kiran Kumar Reddy wanted to hang on to his post till the last moment, he said.

The assembly resolution is the result of our four-month long fight for a united state and we have put in all our efforts to keep the state united, he said and recalled that the Party has written letters to all constitutional heads and has demanded to convene assembly to pass a resolution in favour of a united state. After we submitted resignations, we asked Congress and TDP leaders to follow suit but Kiran Kumar Reddy and others refused which has brought the situation this far.

It is morally incorrect for Congress and TDP to level allegations against us and question our integrity on the united state cause, he added. INN