Gadkari supports Telangana demand
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who is on a six-day visit to London, on Sunday supported the demand for a separate Telangana state. Making a speech at the Telangana Cultural Festival in London organised by Telangana Development Forum UK and Europe, Mr Gadkari said the BJP would fulfil the long-standing aspirations of the people of Telangana region if it is elected to power in the next election.
He promised that the BJP, if elected to power at the Centre, would complete the proposed irrigation projects and undertake river connectivity programme for better water management of the Krishna and Godavari rivers. “We will ensure proportionate water for Telangana and make it prosperous and economically viable state with improved agriculture and irrigation,” the BJP president, who started his London visit on Saturday, said. Mr Gadkari, who is accompanied by former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia and BJP women’s wing president actress Smriti Irani, addressed the first political convention organised by the Overseas Friends of the BJP in the UK.
The BJP president also reminded his audience that his party was the first national party to support a separate Telangana with a resolution passed to the effect.
Mr Gadkari blamed the Congress-led UPA government of using delaying tactics on separate Telangana as it was moving slow on implementing the recommendations made by the Justice Srikrishna Commission.
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