Sathya Sai Baba, the popular spiritual leader, recently remarked that the partition of the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) is a "great sin". On a recent visit to Chennai he publicly spoke out against the proposed partition categorizing this a "mahapapam" and claimed that there was no demand from the people to bifurcate AP into Telangana and Andhra states. As one can imagine, this caused a huge outcry among pro-Telangana activists who angrily voiced their protests in street marches and attacks on the Sivam building, the Baba's temple in Hyderabad.
According to A. Indrakaran Reddy, Congress nominee from Adilabad Lok Sabha seat, Adilabad has no Telangana sentiment and the party would win without question in the Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Adilabad. He claims that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti could win the Adilabad Lok Sabha seat because of the Congress. “People are not ready to believe TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao as he did not do anything for their welfare all these four years,” newspapers quoted him say. Moreover, Rs.
While usually the AP CM, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has something (bad) to say about the TRS party, his speech at a public meeting in Chevalla did not include any comments on the TRS. He expressed his confidence in his party's performance in the upcoming by-elections and questioned his audience on whether any other government has provided them with as much as his has. He put down the TDP party by making references to how the party cheated the people, but conspicuously did not comment on the TRS and what led to this election.
