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Naidu to rally UNPA partners against price rise

Staff Reporter

UNDI (WEST GODAVARI DIST): TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday stated that he would rally the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) partners against the rising prices of petroleum products and other essential commodities. Addressing the road-side gatherings during his road show for the second day in West Godavari district, Mr. Naidu said he would strive to hold a UNPA meeting shortly and plan for an agitation against the UPA Government for its miserable failure in keeping the rising prices under check. In an informal chat with reporters at Pedakapavaram under the Undi Assembly segment, Mr. Naidu exuded confidence that the UNPA-Left combination would emerge a viable alternative to both Congress and NDA. He ruled out the possibility of his party re-aligning with the BJP-led NDA.

The TDP chief sought to expose the `stinking corruption’ in the Indiramma housing programme during his interaction with the people in the delta parts on Wednesday. He alighted from his chariot at Gummuluru to see for himself a colony of houses built under the Indiramma housing programme for the poor. He spotted a `posh’ house allegedly built by a local Congress leader with the Indiramma housing programme funds and drove his point home about the misuse of the housing programme. He went into an unoccupied house and exposed “the poor standards” adopted in constructing houses under the programme. Complaints were galore from the locals on the alleged irregularities in selection of beneficiaries under the housing programme. Mr. Naidu had personal interactions with women and senior citizens by reaching their thatched houses and spent time with them during the programme.

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