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Dattatreya's poser to YSR

Special Correspondent

`Government has failed on all fronts'

`Government lacks clarity on separate Telangana and naxalite issues'

HYDERABAD: The BJP national secretary, B. Dattatreya, has accused the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Government of failing on all fronts and providing `zero governance'.

Releasing at a press conference here on Sunday a statement posing 10 questions to the Chief Minister on the eve of his first anniversary in office, he said the Government had no clear-cut political line on the demand for separate Telangana and in dealing with naxalites. Both the issues would turn into a major problem for the Government in the near future.

Telangana issue

He said the Centre had left the issue of tackling the naxalite problem to the State which was `dilly-dallying'. On Telangana, he charged the Congress and the TRS with trying to confuse people. While Congress leaders maintain that the second SRC would look into the issue, TRS leaders did not subscribe to that view. He wanted the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, to make public any assurance if she had given to the TRS.

The Congress had made 143 promises in its election manifesto but partially implemented only 15 of them. He asked Dr. Reddy whether 2,565 farmers and 265 weavers had not committed suicide under the `pro-farmer' regime. Relief was provided only in 760 cases to the kin of farmers, who ended their lives.

Farm crisis

The BJP leader also accused the Government of providing free electricity only to a token number of farmers and failing to supply it for more than five hours.

On the irrigation front, he said work had not grounded even on a single of the eight projects proposed to be completed by next year. He accused the Government of failing to mobilise loans from international funding agencies for taking up irrigation projects at a cost of Rs.46,000 crores.

Seeking to know the fate of the second round of talks with naxalites, he said that 160 people were killed in extremist violence and police encounters this year. Referring to political and faction killings, he alleged that the State had become worse than Bihar.

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