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KCR promises to implement Maoist agenda'

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No objection to toeing naxal line due to their pro-people struggles, says the TRS president
Swelling support: Former naxalite Sambasivudu (right) joining the TRS in the presence of party president K. Chandrasekhar Rao at
Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad on Monday. PHOTO: G. RAMAKRISHNA
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday said he would implement the Maoist
agenda' after formation of separate Telangana as there were close links' between the region and the naxalites.
Addressing a meeting to mark the admission into the party of former CPI (Maoist) State secretary Konapuri Ilaiah alias
Sambasivudu, Mr. Rao said the TRS should not have objection to toe the line of the naxalites because their struggles
were aimed at fulfilment of basic needs of the poor like food and land.
SC Chief Minister
The TRS was committed to the social and economic uplift of lower castes, which constitute 85 per cent of the
population in Telangana, he said. The party would make a Scheduled Castes candidate the Chief Minister, while the
Deputy Chief Minister would be chosen from among the minorities. The party would distribute three acres of land with
irrigation facility to all poor families. The investment on agriculture in the first year would also be borne by the
government, Mr. Rao added.
Sambasivudu had surrendered to the government in February 2009 and spent an year in jail, mainly in four cases. One
of them was the killing of former Congress MLA C. Narsi Reddy at Narayanpet in Mahabubnagar district on August 15,
2005. The reward of Rs. 10 lakh on his head was handed over to him after his surrender which attracted widespread
criticism.
In the context of Sambasivudu expressing displeasure on the occasion that some people had carried on a smear
campaign against him for trying to join the TRS, Mr. Rao counselled him not to consider himself a naxalite anymore.
There were already some others with ultra left wing background in the party, he said.
Mr. Rao questioned the sincerity of APCC president D. Srinivas for Telangana by deputing Eluru MP K.S. Rao for the
January 6 meeting called by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram. The region was suffering at the hands of its own
people, he observed.
Addressing a separate meeting of Telangana supporters in Commercial Taxes department, Mr. Rao noted that Rs.
16,000 crore out of Rs. 24,000 crore tax collection in the State was generated from the region. He told another meeting
of Telangana tribal teachers association that a temple and community hall in memory of Sevalal Maharaj, worshipped
by tribals, would be constructed at Banjara Hills if Telangana became a reality.
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