Arrest warrant against AP CM: Telangana TDP leaders meet Guv

TDP leaders in Telangana Monday met Governor ESL Narasimhan days after a Maharashtra court issued an arrest warrant against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and party president N Chandrababu Naidu and other party leaders in connection with a 2010 case.

A TDP delegation led by party's Telangana unit president L Ramana met Narasimhan, common Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, at Raj Bhavan here.

Talking to reporters, Ramana demanded that the Maharashtra government withdraw the cases unconditionally.

The TDP had organised the agitation against the construction of Babli project to protect the interests of farmers in Telangana, Ramana said.

The TDP leaders had then refused to take bail and preferred to be in jails instead, he claimed.

The Maharashtra government had sent the TDP team by air to Hyderabad after informing that the cases against them had been lifted, he added.

On September 13, a court in Maharashtra issued an arrest warrant against Naidu and 15 others in a case related to an agitation staged by them over the Babli project across the Godavari.

Judicial Magistrate First Class of Dharmabad in Nanded district N R Gajbhiye issued the order, directing the police to arrest all the accused and produce them in the court by September 21.

Naidu and others, then in the opposition in the united Andhra Pradesh, were arrested and lodged in a Pune jail in connection with the agitation staged by them near the Babli project site in Maharashtra, opposing it on the ground that it would affect the people downstream.