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TDP should introspect, says Congress

Staff Reporter

`Anti-farmer policies lead to TDP downfall'

HYDERABAD: Taking a serious view of the Congress-bashing at the Telugu Desam Party's Mahanadu, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has advised the main opposition party to introspect the reasons for its debacle in the last Assembly elections.

Reacting sharply to the criticism on Sunday, the CLP members - Vatti Vasant Kumar, Murali Mohan, Narayanaswamy and Vamsi Krishna - wondered why the TDP failed to analyse its miserable performance. "Instead of reviewing the party's performance in the Assembly elections, the TDP is concentrating more on the one-year rule of the Congress Government," Mr. Vasant Kumar said.

Taking a dig at the TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, for posing with a plough, Mr. Vasant Kumar said it was the anti-farmer, anti-people and pro-rich policies that defeated the TDP at the hustings.

"What right does he have to find fault with the Congress Government? The wrong policies of the TDP Government forced farmers to commit suicide. The farmers are yet to come out of the red," he added.

No comparison

He said there was no comparison between the one-year Congress rule and that of Mr. Naidu as the Chief Minister in 1995. Soon after completing one-year in office in September 1996, Mr. Naidu hiked the power tariff and increased water cess, leading to violent protests in Kaldhari in East Godavari district, which ultimately led to police firing and death of two farmers, Mr. Vasant Kumar recalled.

Mr. Vasant Kumar said it would be better for the TDP chief to set up exclusive schools for children of farmers and weavers who had committed suicide.

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