ON THE OFFENSIVE: T. Devender Goud, deputy floor leader of TDP (fourth from left) releasing a chargesheet against the Congress Government in Hyderabad on Saturday .-Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

HYDERABAD: On the eve of the Congress Government's second anniversary, the Telugu Desam has released a chargesheet listing the `failures' of the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy regime and dubbed it as "anti-people" and a symbol of "people's deception."

Releasing the 43-page chargesheet at a press conference here on Saturday, senior TDP leaders, T. Devender Goud, Ummareddy Venkateswarlu, Y.Ramakrishnudu and others demanded that the Government reply to the people on the Telugu Desam's charges at the "Rededication day" celebrations.

People `losers'

When the Congress government came to power by making 146 promises, people in the State expected that their living standards would improve. "But, while Dr. Reddy has won, people stood defeated. Their trust has been shattered", they charged. Nepotism, unprecedented levels of corruption, abuse of power and politics of murder had marked the two-year rule.

Stating that there was no other politician in the history of the State who had deceived people so badly, the chargesheet alleged that there was no rule of law and justice in the present government. The State had become a shelter for murderers, anti-social forces, factionists, landgrabbers and illegal contractors.

The TDP leaders said suicide by farmers had increased in the last two years and 3,112 ryots had ended their lives, apart from weavers, toddy-tappers and sheep-rearers. Not a single promise relating to the farm sector was fulfilled. Free power had been restricted to a section of farmers after it was assured to all. As against the promise of 12-hour continuous supply, power was being given only for seven hours.

The relief announced by the Government had not reached even one-third of the families of farmers who committed suicide. Besides, ryots were not getting remunerative prices for their produce.

`Raw deal' to SCs

They alleged that "corruption" was taking place in a big way in the name of irrigation projects. None of the eight projects were completed in two years, as promised. Wondering what would be the fate of the five-year schemes, they predicted that the irrigation projects would end up as "non-performing assets". They also accused the Government of neglecting the welfare sector and deceiving BCs, SCs, STs and Minorities. On Telangana, both the Congress and TRS were cheating people.

The chargesheet listed "the failure" of the Government in implementing its assurances in agriculture, power, irrigation, welfare, employment, housing, health, excise and finance. The issues of political murders and price rise were also listed. It also mentioned 21 schemes whose nomenclature had been changed and the judicial verdicts which went against the Government.

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