After proving earlier this year that a Hyderabadi woman Suraiya Tayabji designed the national flag and not Pingali Venkaiah, the President of Voice Of Telangana Capt. Lingala Panduranga Reddy struck again! The septugenarian is perhaps the most enthusiastic when it comes to researching historical facts of Telangana. This time he came out with details rebutting CM Kiran Kumar Reddy’s repeated claims that former PM Indira Gandhi was against creation of Telangana in 1971. In his 324 page book ‘States’ Reorganization: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh’, he states that Indira had favored granting Telangana during the first phase of the statehood movement in 1969. She changed her mind due to a pending petition filed by Pakistan in the UN Security ...

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