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Telugu Desam Party planning violence, say Congress leaders

Special Correspondent

People urged not to be taken in by Chandrababu Naidu's campaign

HYDERABAD: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has expressed apprehensions that the TDP is planning to create serious law and order problems for petty political gain.

`Hidden agenda'

It has cautioned people against the alleged designs of the TDP president, N. Chandrababdu Naidu.

In a press release here on Saturday, the CLP secretaries -- E. Pratap Reddy, K. Surekha and S. Gangaram -- and the Chief Whip, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, and the whips -- D. Sridhar Babu and S. Uday Bhanu - said the TDP leadership was facing political bankruptcy and hence was resorting to the `dangerous game.'

The TDP's hidden agenda had come into the open in the recent incidents, it said accusing Mr. Naidu of orchestrating violence to blame the Government. He had provoked TRS activists at Medak during his tour to resort to violence and used Paritala Ravindra's followers at Penukonda on the day Sunita filed her nomination in a similar fashion, they said.

The CLP said Mr. Naidu was misusing every venue to heap mud on the ruling party. Even at Mahanadu that began in Hyderabad, he preferred "distortion of truth" to claim that the Government had failed to deliver the goods.

It was a different matter if Mr. Naidu deliberately refused to acknowledge the reality, but people would agree that the Congress Government had not additionally taxed them a single rupee so far. It had not only kept its free power promise and provided relief to the farmers to the tune of Rs. 1,200 crores by waiving the power dues but had also not hiked the power tariff as the TD Government used to do every now and then. The CLP said Mr. Naidu had unleashed a Goebbel's propaganda against the Congress Government fearing a total political blackout in the wake of the latter's `Jalayagnam.' Having failed in establishing corruption charges against the Government, the TDP president was diverting people's attention by picking arguments with police officials and his political opponents, it said.

Listing programmes like Rajiv Yuva Shakti aimed at creating employment opportunities and Indira Prabha for developing fallow lands, the CLP said Mr. Naidu wanted to stall all developmental activity and to project the Government in poor light. He was also jealous of the goodwill that the Congress had gained with its pro-people initiatives, it said adding Mr. Naidu's false concern for farmers and weavers was ridiculous as their plight was a result of his bad policies.

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