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Thursday, Dec 30, 2004

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Rosaiah trains guns on Naidu

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, DEC. 29. The flashing of the `V' sign by the TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, during his visit of coastal villages hit by the tidal wave came in for severe criticism by the Finance Minister, K. Rosaiah.

He told reporters here on Wednesday that Mr. Naidu's gesture at places where heartrending scenes were witnessed did not behove of a civilised person. It was all right if he had flashed the sign at places where there was merry making but not when people are in grief.

The Minister felt that Mr. Naidu undertook the trip to divert the attention of official machinery from relief operations when they were in full swing. Besides, he also pulled up officials and was the cause of delay in shifting of bodies. TDP workers refused to allow the bodies to be shifted until his arrival. He could have visited the ravaged villages after normalcy was restored, the practice followed by all VIPs during such calamities, he added.

Mr. Rosaiah also took a dig at TDP for mobilising people for Mr. Naidu's visit. Such gatherings in the midst of heaps of bodies had never been done by any political party.

Meanwhile, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has accused Mr. Naidu of politicising tsunami deaths instead of appreciating the Government's relief operations.

The CLP member, Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu, and others, at a press conference here on Wednesday, made light of the TDP's plan to come out with a book on the alleged criminal background of the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

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