TRUE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: A DWCRA member speaking at a gram sabha at Koppuravuru in Guntur district on Friday as Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy looks on. - Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

GUNTUR: "Our view on dissolution of management bodies of cooperative dairies is not wrong. That's the Government's view and it need not be wrong just because the High Court has a different view," Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said here on Friday.

Referring to the court judgment, Dr. Reddy said at a press conference on the Acharya Nagarjuna University campus: "There are historical reasons behind this and there was a single government in power for 10 years and I do not want to elaborate beyond that." He refused to buy the argument that either the Government took a hasty decision or the bureaucrats mislead the politicians.

Plays it safe

Refusing to give a straight answer on withdrawal of cheque signing power to sarpanches, he repeated the Government argument that Panchayat Raj Minister J.C. Diwakar Reddy had taken the decision and that he would hold talks with him on the issue to take the final decision.

"The Government is not against changing the decision if it feels it was a wrong step, but let the Minister come out of the hospital," he noted.

`Indiramma' model village programme might look similar to some earlier programmes, but the Government was trying to provide eight basic amenities and comprehensively cover all the needy with no backlog. "We are trying to saturate the village in these aspects so that district officials also can work in a focused manner as we did in Prajapatham," the Chief Minister said.

"What's wrong in it?"

On the argument that he was choosing only the rural areas for the Indiramma programme with an eye on for panchayat elections, he said:

"Future elections are always at the back of mind for a politicians while launching any programme, but if people get benefited without discrimination in a village, what is wrong in it?" he questioned.

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