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Cong. to adopt professional approach

By Our Special Correspondent

VIJAYAWADA SEPT. 30. The APCC president, D. Srinivas, has said the party will engage an independent agency to conduct a survey and find out the winning chances of different aspirants in each Assembly constituency.

Speaking to newspersons here today, Mr. Srinivas said the party would select candidates mainly on the basis of this survey done by professionals. The PCC would also take into consideration the views of selection committees in District Congress Committees and also its own sources. He did not agree that the selection of candidates should be left to DCCs as was done by his predecessor, M. Satyanarayana Rao, who claimed that his policy of `select and elect' helped the party win many seats in local body elections.

Mr. Srinivas pointed out that the PCC had never interfered in the selection of candidates for local body elections but added that Assembly elections are different. He said said he was according top priority for unity among all Congress leaders. He said he had called a meeting of all the groups four times since he assumed office to bring about rapprochement among them. Above all, party workers were exhorting leaders to sink their differences and forge unity to defeat the Telugu Desam Party at the hustings.

He made it clear that the party would draw a line between internal democracy and indiscipline and deal with the latter sternly. Referring to the bickering between the groups led by P. Upendra and Devineni Rajasekhar Nehru in the City Congress Committee, he hoped that they would come together.

The groups, which have been organising meetings separately as part of Jan Jagaran abhyan for the last one month, came together on the same dais for the first time today. "As city party president greater responsibility lies on Kadiala Butchi Babu to carry all groups with him but others also should cooperate with him'', he said. He expressed confidence about forging unity between the two groups here and showing it as an example to others in the State.

He did not agree that the Congress had not been able to take on the TDP Government and expose its involvement in different scams rocking the State.

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