Kotla opposes separate State

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MAY 26. The former Chief Minister, Mr. Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy, has opposed the demand for a separate State for Telangana, and pleaded for retaining the identity of Andhra Pradesh as an integrated State in the interests of development of all regions.

Separatist agitation is no answer to backwardness of Telangana, he said. It is not just Telangana alone but the entire State has been neglected by the Telugu Desam Government, he alleged. Claiming that the economy of the State was in shambles, he said the urgent need of any political party, more so the Congress, was to launch an agitation to ``throw out this Government.''

He said ever since the TDP came to power in 1983, the irrigation and industrial sectors had been neglected. Development took the back seat as huge amount was spent on media to project the personal image of the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, at the cost of the State.

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