Minister for Finance and Health T. Harish Rao has alleged that Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, who hails from Telangana, has no locus standi to speak on Telangana as he neither resigned his legislator’s post in support of the Statehood demand in 2010 nor pursued sanction of any project to the State from the Centre.
Speaking to newspersons along with Minister for Home Md. Mohamood Ali, legislators B. Subhash Reddy, K. Venkatesh, A. Venkateshwar Reddy and former MP A. Seetharam Naik here on Tuesday, he said Mr. Kishan Reddy had moral right even to touch the martyrs memorial leave alone asking Chief Minister to come there for a debate as he had run away from resigning his MLA post in 2010 when his colleague legislator from BJP E. Laxminarayana had quit his membership of the Assembly in support of the Statehood movement.
As the State president of BJP he had also posted on social platform in 2011 that he would launch a Jai Andhra movement. Some youth had written letters that Mr. Kishan Reddy was responsible for their suicide. When he could not muster support to get Mr. Laxminarayana re-elected, it was TRS that had got him elected, Mr. Harish Rao said.
