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TDP launches cycle yatra

Staff Reporter

Devender Goud leads the rally

Party workers in large numbers take part in the yatra
Sloganeering by activists incurs Goud’s wrath

BHADRACHALAM: The rank and file of the Telugu Desam took to cycling as the district unit leadership embarked on a 650-km long bicycle yatra from the temple town of Bhadrachalam on Friday.

They commenced the rally right from the Vista complex near the Bhadrdari temple with only three of the party leaders -- T. Devender Goud, Tummala Nageswara rao and Nama Nageswara Rao pedalling their way to the bridge centre with thousands of partymen accompanying them.

Warm welcome

Some 300 partymen, who turned up with their cycles, joined the rally.

It was the first-ever event in which the party cadre took part enthusiastically in large numbers after a long gap in the district. The leaders in the forefront of the rally were showered flower petals all along the way.

The partymen raised slogans hailing the leadership of Thummala Nageswara Rao and Nama Nageswara Rao like ‘Thummala zilla’ and ‘Nama Zilla’.

The slogan-shouting cadre, however, incurred the wrath of Mr. Devender Goud at a roadside meeting organised near the bridge centre.

He pulled them up saying that the party would be back in its old glory if the cadre could restrain themselves from this sort of sloganeering.

Women activists in large numbers, led by Telugu Mahila State general secretary M. Baby Swarna Kumari, also joined the cycle yatra. Earlier, the TDP leaders had a darshan of Lord Rama in the temple town.

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