HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu claimed on Sunday that the Congress will be out of power in two-and-a-half years and would never return to office.

He was addressing a gathering at the party headquarters here on Sunday, including a few hundreds of new entrants to the party led by three leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The trio include M. Laxmaiah, Banjara Hills division president of BJP, Venkat Reddy, publicity cell secretary and city executive member Krishnamurthy.

Referring to the spate of workers and leaders from other political parties joining the TDP, he said it was an indicator of its rising popularity among people. On the two-and-a-half year Congress rule, he said corruption has assumed alarming proportions.

Poor neglected

On one hand, the Congress Government did not allocate land for the poor and on the other it was giving away large tracts of land to MNCs and private parties in the name of developing Special Economic Zones, he said.

Weaker section welfare was neglected, as was women's welfare he said.

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