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Telugu Desam has no moral right to seek votes: Narayana

Staff Reporter

CPI expects Congress to pass on powers to the local bodies after the elections

ANANTAPUR: State Secretary of Communist Part of India (CPI) K. Narayana has said that the TDP has no moral right to seek votes in the current local bodies' elections as the party denied rights ensured by the Constitution to them during its nine-year rule. Talking to newspersons here on Monday he said the CPI leader alleged that the TDP when in power had kept on postponing devolution of powers to the local bodies ensured by the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution. When asked for rights, the TDP Government had foisted cases against the local bodies' leaders. He was expecting that the Congress Government would pass on the powers to the local bodies after the elections, otherwise it would also meet the same fate as that of the TDP, Dr. Narayana warned their political ally. Mr. Naidu had hiked power rates, taken up privatisation of power sector, shelved the irrigation project and neglected the farmers' problems during his dictatorship-like rule of nine years, the CPI leader charged. Later, Dr. Narayana campaigned for the party MPTC and ZPTC candidates in Papampet and Rajiv Colony villages in Anantapur mandal.

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