Hyderabad: CPI state secretary K. Narayana on Thursday took a dig at Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu for looking at the BJP “with 1,000 eyes”.
He also made it clear that his party would only have an understanding on seat sharing but no alliance with the Congress.
Dr Narayana, who released a 47-page party manifesto for Telangana, criticised Mr Naidu for looking for an alliance with the communal BJP.
“From a two-eyed concept, Mr Naidu is looking towards the BJP with 1,000 eyes for an alliance. It’s unfortunate that he is trying to join hands with the likes of Pawan Kalyan and Narendra Modi. On the other hand, CPM Telangana leader Tammineni Veerabhadram has fallen into a one-sided love affair with KCR,” he said.
Stating that the Congress, the TRS and the CPI alliance would have been a formidable combination, Mr Narayana admitted to a stalemate over seat sharing with the Congress and added that talks were on to end the same.
“There is no alliance with the Congress, only seat adjustments. Alliance means both parties should have a common manifesto, which is not the case here. We will have our own manifesto, while the Congress will have its own,” he explained.
Like the TDP-BJP stalemate on seat sharing, the CPI too has locked horns with the Congress on some seats, especially the Husnabad Assembly constituency. Dr Narayana also met TPCC president Ponnala Laxmaiah in this regard.
The CPI manifesto focused on agriculture, women, labour, power, drinking water, irrigation, unorganised sector and other issues. It sought waiver of farm loans, minimum wages of Rs12,500 in the unorganised sector, Rs 3000 per month unemployment dole to the youth, ban on supply of subsidised water to Coca Cola company, quality power to the farm and domestic sector, setting up of electric crematoriums in different parts of Hyderabad etc.
It also sought 33 per cent reservation for women in elected bodies, rights to women over lands, allotment of government house sites and houses for women, special security to women, right to employment, ban on roadside bars and pubs, protection and welfare of minorities, release of all political prisoners who had served five years in jail, modernisation of jails, drinking water to all villages, towns and cities, declaring Pranahita Chevella as a national project, a Rs 1,000-crore package for backward districts etc.
