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Attacks on partymen: TDP to raise issue in Parliament

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JULY 3. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will raise the issue of post-election killings of its cadre by Congress workers in both Houses of Parliament in the Budget session beginning Monday.

The Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party (TDPP) met here on Saturday, presided over by N. Chandrababu Naidu. Eight out of 13 members attended.

Briefing reporters later, C. Ramachandraiah, R. Chandrasekhar Reddy and M. Jagannadham, all members, said it was noted that the TDP workers were systematically killed and terrorised into shifting party loyalties.

The party would raise the issue of dismissal of Governors by reiterating its stand that the institution of Governors should not be used for political gains. The founder president of TDP, N.T. Rama Rao, took the same line with the Sarkaria Commission and it was still valid.

Mr. Ramachandraiah recalled the party had demanded the abolition of the institution before the Sarkaria Commission as it was a legacy of the British rule, now used by the Centre to oust inconvenient Governments in the States. The Raj Bhavans were used to rehabilitate politicians without power.

The TDPP has also decided to raise in Parliament the question of alternative credit source to farmers in the context of moratorium declared by the State Government on recovery of debt by private moneylenders. The conventional private lenders, who are the source of 70 per cent of agricultural credit, were not coming forward to lend money following the declaration of the moratorium. There was vacuum in lending to the extent of 70 per cent. The position could be set right with the Centre funding the State.

The party would demand rollback in the hike of petrol, diesel and LPG charges as they affected ordinary citizens and farmers. It would also raise the child labour menace in the State. It would pursue the setting up of IIT at Basar and support the BJP in its demand for removal of tainted Central Ministers.

The TDP would take to the Prime Minister's notice the insistence of the management of BITS, Pilani, on all-India merit of students for admission.

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