Yerran Naidu

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday found fault with the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, for going on a holiday instead of solving the acute power scarcity faced by the farm sector.

Addressing a press conference, TDP Parliamentary Party leader, K. Yerran Naidu, and R. Chandrasekhar Reddy said the poor management of the power situation reflected the inefficient functioning of the Government.

"We wonder if the Government itself is on a holiday. It has lost authority to continue in office.

Farmers from Srikakulam to Adilabad are on the roads showing the crop they lost because of poor power supply but the Government remains indifferent," they said.

Naidu takes a dig

Referring to the Power Minister, Mohammed Ali Shabbir's comment that the Government could not envision the problem, Mr. Naidu said the Congress leaders were good only in anticipating land prices and buying large extents close to some of the big projects announced by the Government.

On the Chief Minister's appeal to farmers to send their complaint in a postcard to him, Mr. Naidu said he had written 26 letters between October 2004 and November 2006 on various issues, but the former had not responded to any of them.

Charge on SSA

Mr. Chandrasekhar Reddy charged the Government with planning to nominate to the School Education Management Committees under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, a large number of Congress workers, to benefit them.

It even issued Government Order No. 95 on December 2 to facilitate this, he said and decided to take up the issue with the Union Human Resources Development Minister.

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