'UPA govt messed up Telangana issue'

Terming as "most immature and irresponsible" the UPA government's handling of the Telangana problem, BJP today said the Centre "should apply its mind" to solve the problem.

"It is the most immature and irresponsible behaviour of the government. They have messed up the entire issue," party's senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

"The government should apply its mind," he said.

Alleging that the Centre did not even consult its own MPs and MLAs or Chief Minister, he said "regional feelings are involved and hence we should be careful".

The BJP wanted to know the solution the UPA government had to offer as well as its stand on the issue.

Dubbing UPA government's move to revisit the chargesheet in connection with Babri Masjid demolition as part of Congress's "vendetta politics", Naidu warned that such a step would only 'boomerang' on it.

Slamming the decision to re-examine or amend the chargesheet, he said it was a move by the Congress to "create more mischief" and to "frame the BJP leadership" and "harass political opponents".

"This step will boomerang on the Congress," he said.

"They want to visit the chargesheet after 17 years?", he asked and wanted to know whether it was the right way to deal with such a sensitive issue.

In the wake of the Liberhan commission report, Naidu appealed to the Muslim community not to "get trapped by the votebank politics of the Congress".