HYDERABAD : Former TDP leader T Devender Goud announced the name of his new political party `Nava Telangana Praja Party’ on Friday and also unveiled the party’s flag that has the map of Telangana region in brown against a turquoise blue backdrop.

However, he said the party will beformally launched at a public meeting in the city on August 27. The party policy paper will also be released at this meeting. Goud said that party flag’s turqoise blue symbolising Indian roller (Pala Pitta) represented Telangana’s socio-ethnic cultural identity and pride of the people of the region. Blue also stood for abundant availability of water resource in the region with Godavari and Krishna rivers flowing across Telangana.

The brown of the region’s map depicted soil craving for its legitimate share of water denied by the colonisers, he said. Within the map, plough and shovel represented toiling farmers and working class respectively, the book at the centre standing for knowledge and wisdom and the torch for illumination of minds and building political consciousness for a new people’s Telangana. The former home minister said the process of registering the party with Election Commission of India had begin. The new party’s first priority was reaching out to the people across the region and raising their awareness about the injustice heaped on them for the past five decades, he added.