KCR seeks Sabarimala land
Kerala CM praises KCR at lunch; criticises later
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday lobbied with his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan for the allotment of land to Telangana Tourism at Sabarimala for the construction of a guest house for pilgrims. Telangana and Kerala had entered into an MoU last year on this issue.
Mr Rao has hosted a lunch for the visiting Kerala Chief Minister at his camp office on Sunday. Mr Vijayan is in the city to attend a public meeting organised to mark the completion of a 4,200-km padayatra by the state CPM secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram and his nine party leaders.
Both Chief Ministers appreciated the strengths each other’s state and expressed willingness to help each other. IT minister K.T. Rama Rao, who was present during the meeting, suggested that Kerala can enter into an MoU with Telangana on the exchange of IT knowledge on the lines of Goa.
But later, Mr Pinarayi criticised his host for pursuing pro-rich policies. “Inequalities and injustices have led to the formation of Telangana state, but it has become clear that the same imbalances exist even two and a-half years after Telangana getting statehood due to due to wrong policies of the TRS government,” he said.
Mr Pinarayi accused the NDA government of discriminating against the southern states just because these states did not vote for the BJP. He also criticised the Congress for its failure to form its governments in both Goa and Manipur and said the Congress’ image is getting weakened day by day.
Speaking to the media, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury criticised the BJP for trying to implement its saffron agenda by annihilating a few sections like Dalits and the Muslims.
With the choice of Yogi Adityanath for the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s post, the CPM leaders alleged that Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi-led BJP government has decided to further to communalise the country with its Hindutva agenda by 2019.
Accusing Mr Adityanath as a communal person, Mr Yechury said he does not make a speech without speaking against the Muslims. After the victory in UP, he alleged the BJP will implement its agenda with greater vigour and called upon the people, who believe in democracy and secularism, to resist such moves.