Rayapati blames TRS for UPA's non-performance

Guntur MP Rayapati Sambhasiva Rao on Sunday squarely blamed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi for the uncertain political situation in the state and said that if the ‘violent’ separate statehood agitation continues, President’s rule is imminent.

Mr Sambhasiva Rao said that the situation in the state has gone from bad to worse following the December 9, 2009 statement made by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. He said that the TRS had seized on the statement and turned the state into a hotbed of political uncertainty.

“If the Telangana Rashtra Samithi does not stop its ‘violent’ agitation, President’s rule is imminent,” Mr Sambhasiva Rao said.

He was speaking to media persons after participating in a discussion on Railway Budget-2011-12. The Guntur MP said expressed his dissatisfaction over the meager allotments to the state in the Railway Budget-2011-12 tabled by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee last Friday. “Once again, the state has suffered a major injustice,” he stated.

“The state has got a raw deal once again in the budget due to failure of elected representatives to press the government into giving its due share, though the Congress has the largest block of MPs from one state,” the MP said.

This, he said, was having an effect on the performance of the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre.

“The MPs are not doing justice to people’s problems by mounting pressure on the UPA government in Parliament on the Telangana issue, and not allowing it to function properly,” Mr Sambhasiva Rao stated.

Criticized the TRS for putting pressure on the MPs, the senior politician and well known advocate of integrated Andhra Pradesh said that the regional party was playing games on the bodies of people who had given their lives for the Telangana agitation. He also said that the TRS was playing games with students’ lives and provoking them to participate in the violent agitations.

Demanding that the TRS drop the separate statehood demand, Mr Sambhasiva Rao said that “the agitations will not bring Telangana, create further problems and force the Centre to impose President’s rule soon in the state.”