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Tuesday, Jan 04, 2005

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TDP opposing projects out of fear: YSR

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 3. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has said that the frustration of Telugu Desam leaders over the irrigation projects taken up by the Government is borne out of fear that the Congress will continue in power for two decades if these are completed.

The Government has set out to create in the next five years an additional ayacut of 65 lakh acres, including 32 lakh acres in Telangana. This was something that the TDP Government had not done in the last ten years, Dr. Reddy said while addressing the State executive meeting of the AP Youth Congress here on Monday.

Dr. Reddy said the Government had allocated Rs. 4,200 crores this year and the same would be hiked to Rs. 7,000 crores next year in the irrigation sector. He appealed to the Youth Congress activists to take the "jalayagnam''and other Government programmes to people. He promised them fair representation in nominated posts to corporations and various other bodies.

Goud under fire

The Chief Minister took a dig at the TDP leader, T. Devender Goud, for his comment that the irrigation projects were aimed at taking river water entirely to Cuddapah district. "Can a single district absorb of so much water?"

The TDP portrayed the projects as ill-designed. But, were not Handri-Niva, Galeru-Nagari, Telugu Ganga, Velugode and Srisailam Right Branch Canal, which the Congress Government proposed to complete, taken up during the previous regime.

Pat for Youth Congress

Dr. Reddy lauded the role the Youth Congress in the party's return to power.

The APCC president, K. Keshava Rao, stressed on discipline among Youth Congress cadre. The APYC president, T. Venkata Rao, spoke.

The Chief Minister was shown the relief material mobilised by Congress cadre for tsunami-hit coastal districts.

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