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Andhra Pradesh
Frustrate Telugu Desam designs: Srinivas
By Our Staff Reporter
GUNTUR
DEC. 27.
The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president, D. Srinivas, has appealed to party workers to keep a "hawk's eye'' on the attempts to "manipulate the elections'' by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). "We should wake up from the slumber. We had enough of sleep and rest. It is time we surged ahead,'' he said amidst a big applause. Addressing a pre-election preparatory meeting of Congress activists here on Saturday, Mr. Srinivas said that the numerous bogus votes in the electoral rolls were exposing the manipulating tactics of the ruling party. He wanted the Congress activists to conduct a door-to-door survey to establish the veracity of voter lists. If they found the entries defective, efforts should be made to get them removed forthwith, he said. The observations made by the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, that the TDP would not tolerate deletion of votes in the garb of bogus votes clearly exposed the "designs'' of the party, said the APCC chief. He urged the party leaders and workers to send complaints on the bogus entries in the electoral rolls to election authorities at district, State and Central levels. The elections should be fought in a scientific manner. "We don't require weapons to fight the elections. We should use our brains,'' he said. Mr. Srinivas appealed to leaders and aspirants of his party to put up a united show in their areas. All the aspirants should move door-to-door to convince the people to give their vote to the Congress, irrespective of who the candidate would be. All the aspirants should work for the victory of the party nominee in the elections. Those who sacrificed their seat and still worked for the victory of the party nominee would be "suitably rewarded'' either with the post of an MLC or any other respectable post. He wanted the Congress leaders in all districts to undertake "bus yatras'' in all constituencies of their districts to put up a unity show. Dwelling on the pre-election behaviour of party workers, Mr. Srinivas said that contesting an election and poll management were two different things. Unless the poll was not managed perfectly, the party would not win the polls. All the aspirants should collectively decided on who the members at polling station-level committees should be. The polling agents should be properly identified. They should be very strict inside the polling station and should stay put till the electronic voting machine or the ballot box, as the case might be, was properly sealed. The agents of election and counting should be trained at mandal and village levels. The pre-poll preparatory meetings were completed in seven districts and other districts would also complete this process by January 5.
Launching a diatribe against the TDP Government, Mr. Srinivas said that the myriad sufferings of the people were due to the "wrong policies'' of the State and Central Governments. He listed the problems facing the farming community. The District Congress Committee president, Rayapati Srinivas, presided over the meeting. The former Chief Ministers, N. Janardhana Reddy and Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, and several Congress leaders participated in the meet.
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