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`Congress session ignored issues affecting people'

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TDP leaders say meeting just confined to praising the Chief Minister

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Saturday ridiculed the brain storming session organised by AP Congress Committee and said it was confined to praising Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy while ignoring issues affecting people. Addressing a press conference, TDP leaders Kala Venkata Rao and M. V. Mysoora Reddy said the session was devoted to ways of winning next elections and not to finding solutions to pressing problems like the power crisis, price rise, rampant corruption and funds crunch for paying scholarships.

`Naidu targeted'

They said there was no answer to the issues raised by the Congressmen themselves and the Chief Minister, who had nothing to show in his two-and-a-half-year rule, displayed his frustration by targeting their party president N. Chandrababu Naidu. "To cover up his own failures and unable to match his administrative skills he often mounts an attack on Mr. Naidu, forgetting that he has been at the helm of affairs for over two years now. Instead of showing his intolerance, he should emulate the TDP leader," Mr. Venkat Rao said. On enhancing the capacity of Pothireddypadu head regulator, Dr. Mysoora Reddy said the Chief Minister by his actions had created differences among people of the three regions and challenged him to invite the Prime Minister to lay foundation stone for it. He said Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy had been a dissident all his life and gave sleepless nights to most of the Congress Chief Ministers. "But now he is unable to digest any sort of dissent." "He forgets all the past incidents from showing disrespect to a former Prime Minister to what he did to former Chief Minister K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy," he said. Charging him with double standards, he recalled that as Opposition leader he was against land allotment to Rahejas and uranium extraction plant at Nalgonda, but was now favouring both these projects.

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