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Opposition campaign politically-motivated: CM

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec. 28. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has charged the Opposition parties with politicising the ongoing of revision of electoral rolls and instigating junior doctors to go on strike and "playing with the future of medical students."

Talking to reporters after presenting the progress report on DWCRA, women empowerment and other related subjects, Mr. Naidu said representatives of political parties could submit in writing to the electoral teams if there were any instances of enrolment of bogus voters. Instead, the Opposition parties were trying to defame the TDP.

He said the Opposition was trying to make it a needless controversy as it was afraid of facing the elections and getting defeated. That's why the parties criticised the dissolution of the House and wanted the elections to be held on schedule in September next, he said.

Strongly defending the Government's policy to allow more private medical institutions and levying user charges in Government hospitals, he said that the issues did not concern junior doctors and accused the Congress of instigating them. He said the Government was very clear on its policy and was going by people's need for more colleges. He said the user charges were not being collected from those falling Below Poverty Line. The amount in turn was being used to provide medicines and better amenities to poor patients, he claimed.

Terming the striking junior doctors' demands `unreasonable,' he ruled out the question of holding further talks with them on Government policies. " We are not going to compromise on our policy." He urged junior doctors and medical students to reconsider their stand as it was not a new policy and had been in vogue for the last eight years. Besides, the guidelines of the Medical Council of India were being followed in pursuing the policy, he added.

The Government was taking action on the High Court's judgment to render justice to students who were denied seats by some private medical colleges in the sliding process.

Mr. Naidu also alleged that the Opposition parties were trying to politicise the DWCRA movement and mislead self-help groups.

He also accused the Opposition of distorting the facts being presented in the progress reports on various sectors even as his presentations through six TV channels were receiving tremendous response from people.

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