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Thursday, Apr 29, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

TDP to hold meets on voting pattern

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, APRIL 28. The Telugu Desam Party will hold Assembly constituency-level meetings on May 3 and 4 to review the voting pattern down to the village level.

A training programme for constituency in-charges will be conducted here on May 2 to enable them to go about the work.

These decisions were taken at a meeting of the TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, with senior party leaders on Wednesday.

Sources said Mr. Naidu also discussed the repoll during the day and the voting pattern in the two phases of polling. He was said to be credited with the view that the TDP stood to get 170 Assembly seats. He based his observation on his own inputs gathered from professional agencies which carried out a poll survey in all Assembly constituencies.

Mr. Naidu's information was also based on the findings of youth who were drafted to visit every village on motorcycles to study the strengths and weaknesses of the party. Every minute detail the 2,000-odd youth passed on to the State leadership was followed up and remedial measures taken.

The sources said the party did not have any immediate plans to make in-depth analysis of what went wrong in many constituencies where the TDP's performance was below par.

Since it was bound to be an elaborate exercise at the micro-level, it was decided to take it up after the announcement of the election results.

Meanwhile, the comments of the Politburo member and Home Minister, T. Devender Goud, that indiscipline had grown in the party and the anti-incumbency factor worked against the Government drew sharp reaction from the rank and file in the party.

The comments made by Mr. Goud in an interview to a TV channel found both favour and strong opposition. Some senior leaders expressed unhappiness that Mr. Goud made the remarks while being in a responsible position.

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