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TD leaders heckled at YSR's meet

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HIGH DRAMA: A section of the gathering venting their ire as 0pposition leaders Nagam Janardhan Reddy and Manda Jaganath address a meeting at Bijinapally village on Tuesday.

MAHABUBNAGAR: The "Praja Patham" programme attended by Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy at Bijnepally on Tuesday turned into a slanging match between Congress and Telugu Desam leaders, forcing a section of the audience to heckle MLA N. Janardhana Reddy and MP M. Jagannath.

The Congress activists jeered the TDP leaders and some among them even waved footwear when they alleged that irregularities were taking place in Government programmes. Dr. Janardhan Reddy said that the original design of canals and tunnels for the Kalwakurthy lift irrigation scheme had been changed which would be detrimental to the interests of the ayacutdars, particularly in his Nagarkurnool constituency.

Mr. Jagannath claimed that funds meant for the welfare of SCs and STs were being diverted to other departments. This was promptly refuted by Mallu Ravi, State's Special Representative in Delhi. Such diversion had taken place during the Telugu Desam regime, he countered. The Government, on the other hand, was spending Rs. 500 crores to develop lands belonging to SCs and STs.

Counter-attack

G. Chinna Reddy and J. Krishna Rao, MLAs, said the Telugu Desam during its rule had failed to take up any irrigation project in the district and did not complete Jurala. The Government was determined to complete all the four pending projects within a stipulated time. The Kalwakurthy lift scheme would benefit the people in seven Assembly constituencies, they added.

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