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Wednesday, Apr 07, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

TDP on strong wicket: Yerran

By Our Staff Reporter

SRIKAKULAM, APRIL 6. The Telugu Desam Party is facing no anti-incumbency factor and is seeking votes on the basis of development achieved, says the former TDPP leader, K. Yerran Naidu. Asked whether the party faced discontent from various sections like farmers, youth and owing to increase of the power tariff, he said the party had been able to neutralise such factors by reaching out to villagers and conveying "the reality'' to them. "'Unlike other parties and governments, we are trying to honestly inform people,'' he told The Hindu here today.

He also refuted the Opposition criticism on borrowings from the World Bank and that the TDP Government got its priorities wrong in spending them. He charged the Congress with misleading people and said all States were borrowing. "In fact, we are repaying what have been borrowed at higher rates. The interest rates have come down now,'' he said. The money was well spent on human resource development, health, education, irrigation, poverty eradication and increasing the forest cover. Once a knowledge society was created, it would automatically lead to creation of wealth, he said.

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