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All parties supported Telangana: Congress

October 07, 2013 04:31 PM

New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The Congress Monday defended its move to create Telangana and said all political parties barring the CPI-M had supported breaking up Andhra Pradesh.

"During the all-party meeting on Telangana, every party except the CPI-M supported the bifurcation Andhra Pradesh," Congress general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Digvijaya Singh said.

His remark came shortly after TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu began a hunger strike here demanding that Andhra Pradesh should not be broken up.

Digvijaya Singh said he had a letter written by Naidu in support of Telangana.

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