Chandrababu Naidu walks out of NIC meeting over Telangana

September 23, 2013 15:25

TDP chief and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu today walked out of the National Integration Council meeting in Delhi in protest against the move to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.

During the meeting, which was convened to discuss the growing incidents of communal violence, attack on women and atrocities on SCs and STs, Naidu wanted to raise the issue of Telangana and bring the central government's attention to the continuous protests in Seem-Andhra region against the bifurcation move.

Naidu said when he raised the issue, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi objected to it and told him that the NIC was not the forum to discuss the Telangana issue.

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