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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
R. Ravikanth Reddy

KTR pushes the ball into BJP’s camp to defend with ‘Hyderabad as UT’ narrative

Bharatiya Janata Party IT Hyderabad BRS Telangana

In the heat of an election campaign, several narratives take shape, sometimes just to whip up the sentiments in the hope of better results delivered.

Making Hyderabad a Union Territory (UT), an issue that had found support at the time of State bifurcation, once again came to the fore in the Parliament elections with the BRS working president and former IT Minister K. T. Rama Rao warning that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was hell bent on turning Hyderabad into a UT.

He was hinting at the possibility of the BJP government, if it returns to power, making Hyderabad a UT from June 2 when Hyderabad’s status would be altered a little bit as it loses the status of combined capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as per the arrangement made in the AP Reorganisation Act 2014.

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