V-P welcomes camaraderie of AP, T'gana CMs; Hopeful of

Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu Sunday welcomed the camaraderie of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Chief Ministers Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and K Chandrasekhar Rao and expressed hope it would lead to resolution of outstanding issues between the two neighbouring states.

Chief Ministers of the two states talking to each other with open hearts and trying to find speedy resolutions to the disputes which remained contentious for the past five years

through negotiations is a move that should be welcomed.

"If they could settle things without the need for the Centres intervention, it is all the more better, the Vice-President said in a post on his official Facebook page.

Venkaiah Naidu, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, said he had expressed this desire even earlier but somehow it did work out "for whatever reason.

He said the move by Reddy and KCR, as Rao is popularly known, to address the contentious issues together was a happy thing for people of the two Telugu states.

Both the Chief ..