The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Congress will face people’s wrath: Naidu

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007
ePaper

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Congress will face people’s wrath: Naidu

Special Correspondent

Flays Manmohan, YSR for their ‘indifference’ towards Mudigonda incident

-Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

For the poor: TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu along with senior party leaders staging a day-long hunger strike in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy for their ‘indifference’ towards the tragedy in Mudigonda last week and warned that an ‘uncaring’ Congress Government would face the people’s wrath.

“All that the poor people at Mudigonda in Khammam district asked was a small piece of land for a roof over their heads. Their demand was met by a hail of bullets and they paid for their mistake with their lives,” he told a gathering of party cadres at Indira Park where he sat on a day-long fast.

Visits hospital

He earlier visited Gandhi Hospital where Balaswamy, one of those injured in Saturday’s police firing, died on Tuesday morning, raising the toll to seven. The party chief set the tone for his colleagues to launch scathing attacks on Congress leaders. He himself lashed out at Dr. Singh and Dr. Reddy for ‘neither visiting Mudigonda, nor bothering to visit the hospital here.’

Mr. Naidu said the Prime Minister would return to Delhi after issuing ‘certificates’ to Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy by describing him as a model Chief Minister. “Why did he not care to ask how Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy’s family had amassed a whopping Rs. 50,000 crore.” Instead of being remorseful about the police firing and owning moral responsibility for the seven deaths, Dr. Reddy was launching counter attacks on the Opposition parties.

Claim ridiculed

He said the Chief Minister was claiming a 9.5 per cent economic growth rate in the State but the fact remained that the poor had not benefited an iota while the middle classes were unhappy with the regime.

Mr. Naidu was joined in his token fast by all the party’s Polit Bureau members, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and leadership at State, district and mandal levels.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh