The Hindu : Bandaru at it again; trains guns on Sonia

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Monday, Mar 15, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Bandaru at it again; trains guns on Sonia

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 14. Even before the furore of his remarks on ryots' suicide died down, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Bandaru Dattatreya, has ridiculed the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi's comments on the farmers' deaths.

Addressing a party meeting here on Sunday, Mr. Dattatreya said Ms. Gandhi spoke on farmers' suicide without knowing "how a vegetable is grown." Advising Bharatiya Janata Party workers not to "take her words seriously," he said there was no message in her recent road shows in the State.

Asserting that Ms. Sonia's foreign origin would be an issue in the elections, he said: "She will continue to be on the road while A.B. Vajpayee will be sitting in Parliament."

Mr. Dattatreya said the country would become a super power by 2010 under the leadership of Mr. Vajpayee. He related the victory of India over Pakistan in the first one-day match in Karachi to the `India Shining' campaign.

He said the BJP would certainly win the Hyderabad and Secunderabad Parliamentary seats in the elections. Coming down heavily on the Telangana Rashtra Samithi president, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the Union Minister said there was no support to the TRS from people of Telangana.

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