CPI ready to support a bill on Telangana

HYDERABAD : Communist Party of India national council general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Tuesday announced that his party would support Bill on formation of Telangana if it was introduced either in state Assembly or Parliament.
Maintaining that there was an “overwhelming support” among people to the cause of separate Telangana, the CPI leader told mediapersons that it was for the Congress to introduce a Bill in this regard.
“We will not oppose the Bill... we will support,” he said. Bardhan reminded the Congress that Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chattisgarh were carved out following people’s movements for smaller states.
The respective state governments took initiative and started the process by passing Bills seeking separation in their respective Assemblies. He warned that the second States Reorganisation Committee would stir the hornet’s nest.
On the CPM’s opposition to Telangana, Bardhan said he was aware of the former’s stand but would know from them the severity of the stand. Bardhan dismissed the theory of smaller states struggling for existence stating that backwardness was prevalent in bigger states too.
Bardhan said the CPI, along with other Left parties, would work for an alternative to both the Congress and BJP which had been pursuing similar economic and foreign policies. He, however, was of the view that forging of alliance should not be a mere electoral adjustment. On the possibility of an electoral understanding with Chiranjeevi, the veteran politician quipped: “Let him first announce the setting up of political party.”

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