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TDP men criticise seniors

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Go to people with ‘unified State’ agenda, says Naidu

‘TRS contestants will not get public sympathy’
By-poll will see a triangular contest: TDP chief

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party’s second-rung leaders on Saturday expressed their resentment at the views aired by some senior leaders that the party should declare its fresh stand on the issue of separate Telangana.

They gave vent to their feelings at a review of the party’s strength in Medaram Assembly constituency of Warangal district undertaken by party president N. Chandrababu Naidu.

It was part of a series pertaining to all the 16 constituencies where by-polls are scheduled following the resignation of Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLAs. The participants in the meeting wanted disciplinary action against such leaders.

Party sources said that Mr. Naidu had underscored the need for the leadership and the cadre at the Assembly constituency, mandal and village-levels to continue crusading against the party in power that did not believe in fulfilling pre-poll promises and one that pursued ‘anti-people policies’.

Mr. Naidu asked them to go people with the agenda of a ‘unified State’. He said that the TRS contestants in the by-polls would be handicapped by the absence of sympathy from the people because they had resigned on their own, thus thrusting another election on the people. The by-poll would see a triangular contest because the Congress and TRS were not sailing together now, he said.

Excise policy

Later, at a press conference, party leaders -- Kodela Sivaprasada Rao and Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary -- lashed out at the Congress government for adopting a commercial, revenue-earning attitude in the excise policy. They regretted that the Government was actually ‘pro-active in facilitating an environment where people could be motivated to drink more alcohol’.

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