Rejecting Congress' claims that the BJP was opposed to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in the context of Telengana, the main opposition on Thursday said it favoured creation of a separate state of Telengana. The party also challenged the Centre to bring a bill in parliament to this effect to which they would extend unconditional support.
The assertion by the BJP, also aimed at enticing the Telengana Rashtra Samiti led by K Chandrashekhara Rao, rebutted the Congress charge that the party has been indulging in "double speak" over the issue. Instead, the BJP countered that it was the ruling party that had tied-up with TRS during 2004 general elections and promised a separate Telangana state.
"The previous government has put in place a procedure to create separate states out of present ones. The three states during the NDA tenure were carved out on that basis. So, what stops Congress from fulfilling its promise to the people of Telangana. Probably the Congress was never interested in giving separate statehood and so constituted Mukherjee Committee, as an eyewash," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said, adding that the party has invited all to join hands, who wanted a separate Telangana. The pro-Telengana posture of the BJP, however, has not come as a surprise as it has been trying hard to woo the TRS into the NDA fold and increase its prospects at the Centre in a post Lok Sabha election scenario.
The NDA, when in power, had turned a blind eye to the Telengana demand because of the TDP, only creating the three states of Uttrakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
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