Karimnagar:Union minister Jairam Ramesh expressed confidence in the Congress forming the government in the new state of Tela-ngana without taking assistance from any par-ty except for its ally, the CPI. He was addressing the media here on Wednesday.
Stating that he had co-vered scores of Assemb-ly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, Mr Jairam Ramesh said, “I am 100 per cent confident that the Congress would attain power in the newly carved state considering its strengths.”
He cited political stability, social justice, co-mmunal harmony, peaceful division of the state and industrial growth and creation of employment opportunities for local youth, which have been top priority for the Congress, as the main reasons that would ensure a win for the Congress.
“No other party can guarantee political stability like the Congress does. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) can’t form a government. The state needs a stable government,” he reasoned.
Dwelling on social justice concept, Mr Jairam Ramesh said that four crore people of Telangana did not want a government run by feudalists (Doralu) and all sections of the society must have access to power.
He added that the Congress did not want to make another Jharkhand out of Telangana.
As a spectrum of communities is residing in Telangana, the region requires communal harmony, he felt.
Mr Jairam Ramesh criticised the BJP and the TD by saying that they are two sides of a coin.
He alleged that the TRS wanted to divide the state by extorting and duping public of the other region. For the Congress, both regions are like two eyes, but
TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao uses his two eyes to focus only on Telangana, he charged.
He further claimed that the Congress would strive to strengthen the IT sector and its services in Hyderabad. “Within 10 years of time period, Hyderabad will be placed in the top position from its current fourth position,” he said.
The Union minister felt that the Modi wave would not have much ef-fect in Andhra Pradesh.
