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Monday, Apr 26, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Naidu lists `achievements'

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, APRIL 25. The TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, in a last minute appeal to voters, sought a mandate for his party on the plea that the development achieved by the State and the good governance provided by his Government was unparalleled.

In an open letter on Sunday night, Mr. Naidu said his party had taken up development as a "movement'' in respect of laying roads to villages, setting up schools, improving health facilities, supplying power and in maintaining law and order. Prior to the advent of the TDP, there were scores of villages which public representatives had never visited.

Even as the TDP Government was striving to hasten the State's development, the Congress was "desperately'' trying to come to power through the backdoor with the help of a separatist party like the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) which had endorsed the naxalites' agenda.

The TDP chief asked voters how they could support the Congress, a party backing the TRS which was demanding that the height of the Alamatti dam should be raised when there was no water in the Krishna. The TRS was also opposing construction of the Pulichintala project whereas the Congress was saying that it would build it if elected to power.

He said the TRS chief, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, had insulted people of Andhra region, senior leaders and the farmers but Congress leaders had never cared to condemn his statements. "Will you vote for a party that creates divisions between brothers and sisters, and between farmers?" he asked.

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