Left parties never backed separate Telangana state

New Delhi, Apr 23: The Left parties today stated that they never stood for a separate Telangana state, questioning BJP leader L K Advani's attempts to fish in the troubled waters and made out a strong case for keeping Andhra Pradesh intact in the larger interest of the people of the state.

The issue might hot up after May 11 in case the Congress fared badly in the ongoing Assembly elections in West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

Talking to UNI, the CPI(M), CPI and RSP also urged the UPA government to demonstrate political will, administrative ability and take measures to end the socio- economic root cause of the growing Maoists and naxalites violence, which is said to have spread in as many as about 150 districts and 13 out of 28 states.

CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said ''we do not stand for a separate Telangana. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat said the BJP was already known for its rank opportunism and double speak and was trying to fish in the troubled waters to create a situation whereby the UPA government was destabilised.

"The CMP, which is the basis of Manmohan Singh government's governance does not mention about a separate state." she added.

RSP leader and MP Abani Roy said "the Congress should have not made the false promise". It was understandable why the TRS was "unhappy and annoyed" with the Congress.

On the reported widening of the Maoist ' People's War,', Mr Bardhan and Mr Raja said unless the government addressed the causes behind the ultra-Left violence, the problem could never be tackled as this was not merely a law and order issue.

Ms Karat said the Naxalites could also be isolated in a similiar way as had recently been demonstrated in central Chhattisgarh state wherein the government aided village defence forces had lately taken to" hunting" Maoists in the forests.

"This is a lesson how not to deal with it,"she said adding that the political will on the part of the government, the able administrative mechanism and the stoppage of the mainstream political parties' clandestine' understanding with them could help combat the menace.

Mr Roy said the" increasing" influence of the Maoists and the naxalites was the reflection of the people's growing discontent with the Congress-led coalition." The burgeoning joblessness, displacing of the people- the tribals, marginal agriculturists and the working classes- in the name of development could lead to " making of terrorists or the naxalites," he added.

UNI

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