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Expansion of NH-9 to figure in BJP manifesto

Staff Reporter

NALGONDA: Expansion of the National Highway No.9 would figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto, the party national secretary Nallu Indrasena Reddy has said.

“It is now clear that the Congress Government cannot expand this most important route.The BJP will include the issue in the manifesto and keep the promise after the next elections,” Mr. Reddy announced at a public meeting at Kodad on Sunday evening. Mr. Indrasena Reddy also said that the party, meanwhile, would block the NH-9 to force the Government to take up the expansion works. He criticised the two MPs—S. Jaipal Reddy and S. Sudhakar Reddy—for “their failure” to take up the matter seriously. “While one MP is a Communist, another believes in the Communist ideology. In tune with the Communists’ natural habit of preventing development, they didn’t take care of the NH-9,” he said.

Apology demanded

The BJP leader demanded an apology from the Union Minister Mr. Jaipal Reddy for his inability to keep his promise on the expansion of the NH-9. Charging the Government with neglecting the road lines completely, he said that it had bitterly failed to maintain the existing roads properly.

While hailing the Prime Minister Sadak Yojana taken up by the Vajpayee Government, he observed that it had changed the face of all roads in the country.

A 23-member team of BJP led by—Goli Madhusudan Reddy, Kasam Venkateswarlu and Dasari Mallesham—took part in the 165-km padayatra from Dandu Malkapur on April 8. Mr. Indrasena Reddy earlier called on Reka Jangaiah, 40, one of the participants of the yatra, who was bitten by a scorpion during the stay at the Government school in Munugal last night.

Mr. Indrasena Reddy criticised Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy for his outburst against media persons at a public meeting in Medak.

“He is not in a position to spare any opposition. When a group of women asked him to do something to bring down sky-rocketing prices of essential commodities, he badmouthed the lens men,” he observed charging the Chief Minister with failing to keep up promises given during the elections.

“The Congress, which deceives people time and again, should be taught a lesson in the coming elections,” he said.

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