The Hindu : TDP under attack at women's meet

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Monday, Feb 09, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

TDP under attack at women's meet

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI. Feb. 8. The CPI State joint secretary, K. Narayana, on Sunday said that the Telugu Desam Government should be dislodged immediately if the economic reforms, indiscriminately being pursued by it, were to be reversed.

Addressing a women's workshop organised under the aegis of the Chittoor district unit of the State Mahila Samakhya, he strongly assailed the `trick and fraud' played on the poor and the working class by the BJP-TDP combine by withdrawing from marketing kerosene for domestic consumption and then making women `addicts' to the LPG system. First it distributed it to women free of cost and later go on hiking its cost.

Terming the TDP Government anti-women, he criticised the TDP Government for exploiting DWCRA groups to meet its political end.

The district CPI(M) secretary; K. Murali, lashed out at the ruling TDP for its talk of providing women with cell phones when most households in the State were struggling even for food. The Government also came in for serious flak for putting on the chopper block even the profit-making public sector sugar and dairy units and also for doling out precious Government lands to industrial houses at a throwaway price.

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