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Minister joins issue with Naidu

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HYDERABAD: Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy has joined issue with Telugu Desam President N. Chandrababu Naidu on the Government naming welfare schemes after Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

Responding to the statement by Mr. Naidu that he would remove these names once his party comes to power after the next elections, the Minister remarked that the TDP chief’s stand amounted to chopping the very hands that fed him.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, Mr Reddy said it was because of the “generosity” of Indira Gandhi that Mr Naidu enjoyed his status as politician.

He was first elected MLA in 1978 on Congress ticket, and two years later inducted into the Cabinet at the instance of Indira Gandhi.

It was because of his status as a Minister that he became son-in-law of Late N. T. Rama Rao. The Minister recalled a statement by Mr. Naidu sometime ago that he had 30 per cent Congress blood in him. Mr Naidu, in fact, owed a lot to Indira Gandhi and Congress.

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