Three Telugu Desam Party leaders — former home minister K Siva Prasad Rao and members of legislative assemblies P Pulla Rao and GV Anjaneyulu — who have been fasting for the last four days, have become weak.
They have been observing fasts as part of their demand for a united state of Andhra Pradesh. Government doctors and district administration have been examining their health condition.
TDP polit bureau memebres Y Rama Krishnudu and Y Yerran Naidu called on the fasting leaders.
Speaking to journalists today at the fasting camp near Hindu College here, Siva Prasad Rao claimed that the UPA partners are actually against the division of Andhra Pradesh. He lashed out at Lok Satta Party president Jai Prakash Narayan, and said that he was equivocal on the Telangana issue. "He has no political maturity," Siva Prasad Rao alleged.
Siva Prasad Rao maintained that Telangana region is getting a lion's share of the Nagarjuna Sagar Water Project on the Krishna river. "The Telangana area is drawing water even from dead storage of the dam," he added.
The TDP leader took exception to the alleged undignified language used by Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao against the people of Andhra region.
Meanwhile, a meeting of intellectuals, held under "Avagahana", a voluntary organisation, is said to have advocated for unified Andhra Pradesh.
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