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BJP meet discusses poll strategy

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec.20. The Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, and several other top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders would address a public meeting, `Abhivruddi Sankaravam', being organised here on January 11 to coincide with the party's two-day national executive meet.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, B. Dattatreya, the State BJP president, N. Indrasena Reddy, and other leaders said that the recently-elected BJP Chief Ministers would be felicitated on the occasion.

They said the meeting of the party State office-bearers, district chiefs, MPs and former MLAs held on Saturday reviewed the political situation in the State. The feedback from the districts was that the wind was in favour of the BJP. Many new sections were extending their support to the BJP, they claimed.

The meeting discussed the strategy to be adopted by the TDP-BJP combine to effectively counter the opposition parties in the elections. Referring to the senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that his party would like to have an understanding with anti-TDP-BJP parties, they asserted that the TDP-BJP alliance would win hands down even if all the major opposition parties -- Congress, CPI, CPI(M) and TRS -- came together.

Admitting that anti-incumbency would be there, Mr.Dattatreya said the TDP- BJP alliance would, however, "overcome it" because of the performance of the Central and State Governments.He said the BJP would make development as its main agenda and would challenge the Congress on the issue.

The development achieved by Congress during its many decades of rule was nowhere near the progress made during the five-year BJP rule.

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