The Hindu : Left parties' charge devoid of truth: TDP

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Sunday, Feb 01, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Left parties' charge devoid of truth: TDP

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 31. The Telugu Desam Party today lashed out at the CPI (M) and the CPI for their assertion that neither the nation nor Andhra Pradesh had witnessed any worthwhile development under the dispensation of the NDA and TDP Governments.

Responding to the speeches made by Communist leaders during their respective meetings held here earlier this week, the TDP said the Marxists should stop looking through "tinted glasses.''

Quoting a survey conducted by AC Nielson on how Asian economies had performed in the last six months, the party spokesman, Ummareddy Venkateswarlu, said India with 85 per cent stood ahead of Thailand, Malaysian, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Addressing a press conference, he said the Goldman Sachs' report had forecast that India would be a super economic power by around 2040 and that it would forge ahead of several Asian countries in about 10 to 12 years. The TDP spokesman targeted the CPI(M) State secretary, B. V. Raghavulu, saying his remarks against the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, were unbecoming of a leader belonging to a party which stood for ideology and struggles. Mr. Venkateswarlu ridiculed the contention of the CPI leader, S. Sudhakar Reddy, that the NDA and the TDP Governments had advanced the elections to pre-empt the possibility of an increase in the Lok Sabha and Assembly seats for SCs and STs if constituencies were delimited on the basis of the 2001 census. He said the delimitation exercise was dropped as all political parties felt that it should be based on the 2001 census whose figures were not fully available.

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