TRS chief K ChandrasekharRao and Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) chairman Prof M Kodandaram, whohave not been seeying eye to eye for quite sometime now, have buried thehatchet. After a two-hour-long meeting at KCR’s residence here, the two leaderscame out and declared that the differences that had crept in between them havenow been removed and that they were pals once again.
The two leaders moved awayfrom each other in the recent past following differences in perception onTelangana movement. KCR was keen on making use of electoral process too to securea Telangana state while Kodandaram wanted intense movements to build pressure andforce the Centre to deliver what the people of the region had been seeking allthe time. “We will be working together.
There were difference between us. Butwe sat together and hammered them out,” Chandrasekhar Rao told mediapersons onFriday after the meeting as Kodandaram nodded in approval. All Telangana forcesshould come under the TJAC umbrella to wage an effective war for Telangana,” KCRsaid. Their show of unity would be on display at Samara Bheri, a public meetingbeing organised by the TRS at Suryapet in Nalgonda district on Nov 23. “Kodandaramand other TJAC leaders will be present at the meeting,” KCR said. Kodandaram, forhis part, said that the TJAC has formed a subcommittee which will draft anagitation programme soon for Telangana.
According to sources, after distancebegan growing between the two leaders, the TRS legislators and other functionariesof the party prevailed on the TRS chief to mend fences with Kodandaram lest itshould send wrong signals to the people and weaken the movement. KCR relentedto the pressure at the party’s recent meeting at Karimnagar.
Chandrasekhar Raosaid that the TJAC had expressed its support to the Deeksha Divas to beobserved on Nov 29, betrayal day on Dec 9 and protest programmes on Dec 23 whenthe Centre went back on its Telangana commitment.