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Congress hits back at CPI (M)

VIJAYAWADA: Local Congress leaders, in response to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s call, have kickstarted an information campaign to counter the Left parties’ attack on the Government over land issue.

The leaders have taken particular exception to CPI (M) state secretary B.V. Raghavulu’s comment over the ruling party’s internal affairs and his remark that the Congress leaders were performing ‘break dance’ and ‘Bharatanatyam’.

Maintaining that Mr. Raghavulu’s “misinformation campaign” had gone out of proportions, Pradesh Congress Committee executive member Kolanukonda Shivaji on Monday appealed to CPI (M) leader to offer constructive suggestions to the Government rather than seeking to tarnish its image.

Mr. Shivaji said it was the CPI (M) that had started a “near militant struggle” under the veil of a democratic agitation ostentatiously for distribution of house sites for the poor people. “For the last 80 days or so, their agitation has yielded no result except that it has become a law and order problem in the State,” he held.

While the Rajasekhara Reddy Government had constructed 20 lakh houses for the poor in Andhra Pradesh in three years, the West Bengal Government could build just 6.47 lakh houses in 20 years. “Nearly 60 lakh people are on roads in Kolkata. To resolve their problems, the Government there has done nothing. Mr. Raghavulu should answer these questions first.”

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