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Konathala rebutts Naidu's charges

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Prove accusations, TD chief told

HYDERABAD: Commercial Taxes Minister Konathala Ramakrishna has rebutted TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu charges that the Chief Minister's Office had become the fulcrum of corruption.

Addressing the media here on Tuesday, Mr. Ramakrishna asked Mr. Naidu to prove at least one of his accusations. The Government, in fact, had the decency to offer probes into several allegations unlike Mr. Naidu who preferred to secure stay orders on the probes against him.

Asking whether Mr. Naidu would prefer reopening of probes against him in irregularities in powerr purchase agreements, food for work and Yeluru land scam to prove his honesty, Mr. Ramakrishna said the Congress Government had not spared officials too and had ordered probes whenever allegations were levelled against them.

`Stop threats'

Meanwhile, Government Whip D. Sridhar Babu and CLP secretary S. Gangaram asked the TDLP deputy leader T. Devender Goud to stop threatening Congress leaders.

Mr. Goud had no right to speak about Telangana development as he had remained silent during the TDP Government's rule when the region faced neglect.

Goud slammed

Mr. Goud should be more bothered about the TDP's political future in Telangana rather than worry about the Congress as the ruling party was doing its best to develop the region by undertaking massive irrigation works.

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