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Congress memo to Central leaders

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, FEB. 1. A day ahead of a Telugu Desam Party delegation leaving for New Delhi to petition national leaders about the murder of the Penukonda MLA, Paritala Ravi, the Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday sought to seize the initiative by faxing letters to the President, the Prime Minister, and others on the background of the slain legislator.

In an 18-page memorandum sent, among others, to the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, the former Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, the BJP president, L. K. Advani, and the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, the CLP said the TDP had been gunning for the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, by resorting to a smear campaign ever since it lost the election.

It explained how TDP workers went on the rampage, damaging Government property and burning RTC buses after Ravi's assassination. The TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, had openly said he would not tolerate continuance of Dr. Reddy in power.

`Sinister move'

They accused the TDP of not allowing the probe to be taken to its logical end and attempting to influence the investigation agency through `Goebellesian propaganda.''

The TDP was not able to digest the developmental programmes taken up by the Congress Government and the positive response from investors.

It was a "sinister move'' to scare away investors that prompted it to indulge in large- scale violence in the aftermath of the murder of Paritala who was accused in 54 criminal cases.

They alleged that when Mr. Naidu was at the helm of the State, the slain MLA had unleashed a reign of terror in Anantapur and attacked his political rivals.

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