The Hindu : Choose between free power and quality power: Naidu

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Choose between free power and quality power: Naidu

By Dasu Kesava Rao and S. Nagesh Kumar

The Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, leads its show-of-strength rally in Hyderabad on Sunday. — Photo: P. V. Sivakumar

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, FEB. 22. The Telugu Desam Party sounded the bugle for the upcoming battle of the ballot through a display of strength by mobilising cadres from all corners of the State for what it termed as "a never before rally" at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds here on Sunday.

The party supremo and Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, used the platform to launch a scathing attack on the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and called on the people to reply with a resounding `no' to the Congress party's impossible promise of supplying free power to farmers.

He asked people to choose between free power and quality power that his Government was providing.

Mr. Naidu criticised the foreign origin of Ms. Gandhi and what he called her inability to understand the Indian ethos, and the AICC general secretary-in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who, he said, was dabbling in the State though he had failed to ensure his party's victory in Jammu and Kashmir. These leaders were once again mortgaging the ``self-respect and pride'' of the Telugu people, a plank on which NTR dismantled the `Congress monolith' in 1982.

The Congress was on a downhill course and would end up with `a two-digit' tally in the coming elections, he said.

Mr. Naidu said the Telangana Rashtra Samithi should blame the Congress leaders who had no time off from politics to tackle poverty and backwardness in Telangana.

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