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Telugu Desam woos ex-servicemen

Special Correspondent

Promises budgetary allocation
Ex-servicemen cell inaugurated by TDP chief

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu has promised that if the party comes to power, a special budgetary allocation would be made for the welfare of ex-servicemen.

Addressing a gathering at the party headquarters here after inaugurating the TDP Ex-servicemen Cell on Saturday, he said it is a pity that the nation forgot those who made sacrifices so that civilians could enjoy peace.

Even as he was talking about peace, he veered around to speak about George W. Bush, the US president, and said he is responsible for global unrest. Ex-servicemen Cell president A. Rangaiah Goud also spoke.

At another press conference, the TD parliamentary party leader K. Yerran Naidu lashed out at the Congress Government in the State, blaming it for not even spending the allocated budgets for different sectors.

Yerran Naidu was responding to Friday’s statement by Finance Minister K. Rosaiah that the TDP had neglected several sectors and that any development had taken place only in the Congress regime, that too, without going on the overdraft mode.

Mr. Yerran Naidu said that when several Government departments are showing unspent balances, there is apparently no need for the Government to go for overdraft.

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