KARIMNAGAR: Former chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, by a quirk of fate, had to lose his life in the Nallamala forest as he was responsible for the killing of several Maoist leaders and cadre in the same area after inviting them to talks, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao has said.
And, he has atributed the huge loss of life and property in Kurnool, Vijayawada and Guntur in the unprecedented floods to the injustice being done in sharing the Krishna waters.
Rao made these shocking observations at a media conference here Saturday.
``Rajasekhara Reddy invited the Maoist leaders to peace talks and, later, he virtually eliminated hundreds of Maoists from the Nallamala forest. He had to pay a heavy price for that. Similarly, people in Kurnool, Vijayawada and Guntur had to face the wrath of unprecedented floods as projects like Pothireddypadu were constructed without any permision at the cost of Telangana people and region,’’ he alleged. The TRS chief ’s caustic tongue did not stop there. He described the leaders in the Congress who were opposing him and his programmes as ``barking dogs who bark at their master’s instructions’’. He also charged the Andhra rulers and leaders with treating people in Telangana region as fools.
Chandrasekhar Rao, once again, mentioned the names of film personalities Nagarjuna, D Ramanaidu, real estate developer Narne Ranga Rao, late Rajasekhara Reddy’s brother and MLC Vivekananda Reddy as landgrabbers. The TRS chief flayed certain media organisations for washing their dirty linen in the public.
