[1]Hyderabad: Several senior Congress leaders, including AICC general secretary and Andhra Pradesh in-charge, Digvijay Singh, on Saturday condemned the controversial comments made by TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao on Friday, stating that Andhra employees working in Telangana will have to go back to Andhra after bifurcation.
The Congress leader was quick to plunge into the fray with words of reassurance and urged employees not to take the TRS leader’s comments seriously. He assured them of full protection and security.
In an appeal to the people of the state, Singh said this was the time when people should observe restraint and remain peaceful till the process of bifurcation was completed in a phased manner.
At the same time, he asked the TRS chief not to come up with provocative statements and condemned his remarks made on Friday at an employees’ meeting, as absolutely unnecessary.
“Nothing will happen to employees who are already working in Hyderabad or in Telangana. We are here to protect their interests,” Singh said.
Earlier in the day, Telangana Congress leaders including Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha, senior ministers K. Janareddy, Danam Nagender and others also condemned the statement.
“It is most unbecoming on the part of KCR to issue such a statement. He has no business to talk like that. It is not true that employees will be asked to go back to their native places, nothing will happen to them,” the ministers took care to explain.
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