Governor misleading Centre on Telangana

With the state clamping down on agitation following the mood that statehood may not come soon, Yaskhi trained his guns on the governor. “He appears to be eager for President’s rule in AP instead of helping restore political stability. He is overtly playing politics by involving himself in day to day administration. He is sending factually incorrect reports to the Centre,” Yaskhi told TOI.

While Congress brass had urged party MPs from Telangana to desist from going to the media till the Centre took a stand on the sensitive issue, the pressure from the ground seems to be telling on them.

Narasimhan is on top of their hitlist as there is a feeling in the Telangana camp that he was overreaching himself by using his background as the intelligence czar. The threat of Maoists gaining an upper hand is attributed to him.

Narasimhan was moved from Chhattisgarh, a Maoist den, to Hyderabad when the post-YSR agitation in the troubled region had the Centre at its wits end to deal with the fallout.

“There is police deployment in every nook of Osmania University and Telangana. Not a single Maoist has been arrested despite police having draconian powers and having searched every hostel over and over again. That proves the lie,” the Nizamabad MP said, adding, “They are raising the Maoist bogey to defame the movement.”

The Srikrishna panel, which voted for united Andhra, led to heartbreak in the volatile region. Locating his demand in cold political logic, Yaskhi said Congress could win the region with 17 Lok Sabha seats by honouring its commitment of December 9, 2009, while continuing to work on Andhra region, or risk losing the entire state. “If we don’t honour the promise for state, our fate would be like the byelections (Congress lost all 12 MLAs to TRS in August),” he said, mincing no words.

According to the young MP, the governor was fuelling the agitation with his words and actions. “There was firing in Osmania campus. There are bandhs and protests everywhere and the governor said two days ago that AP was peaceful. Is this peace?” he asked.

He said the governor had taken over the power to appoint vice-chancellors to universities when emotions were running very high during the agitation. “But three universities in Telangana are still without V-Cs. Is this not the perpetuation of injustice for which the region is seeking statehood,” he said.

Yaskhi denied that opposition to separate state by ally MIM — which is a strong force in Hyderabad and represents the Muslim community — dashed their hopes. “MIM is under pressure from Muslims of Telangana to agree to statehood. It is not an issue. Also, MIM has committed to sail with Congress whatever the decision,” he said.

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