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Purandareswari credits Ministerial berth to 20-month performance in Parliament

Staff Reporter

`Being NTR's daughter had no effect on decision'

Daggubati Purandareswari

GUNTUR: Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Daggubati Purandareswari, who visited her native district on Wednesday, said she did not get ministerial berth because she was the daughter of former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao.

"If it were true, I would have been given the berth soon after getting elected from Bapatla constitutency," she said refusing to comment on the statements made by Guntur and Eluru Members of Parliament Rayapati Sambasiva Rao and K. Sambasiva Rao.

A number of Congress leaders from Guntur and Prakasam districts met the Union Minister at the Inspection Bungalow here before she set out on a tour of Guntur district. Guntur DCC president Mupplaneni Seshagiri Rao, Chilakaluripet MLA Marri Rajasekhar and two MLAs from Prakasam district, Daggubati Venkateswara Rao and Gottipati Ravi Kumar, were among the prominent persons who met her.

Living standards

She said it was her performance in Parliament for 20 months that weighed in her favour. "I never aspired for a position, but having got it, I will put in efforts to do my best to improve the living standards of people," she told reporters at the guest house.

She later left for Punnuru and addressed public meetings at Pedanandipadu and Kakumanu in the district.

At the meetings she said the Centre and State Governments had accorded priority to the welfare of farmers.

At the Road Show in Pedanandipadu, she said she was indebted to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for giving her the additional responsibility. Kuchenapudi MLA Mopidevi Venkata Ramana said that in a short period Ms. Purandhareswari had addressed several of the people's problems in the constituency.

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