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Collectors’ meet turned into political forum: TD

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‘YSR putting tremendous pressure on Collectors and SPs’

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has charged Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy with turning the Collectors’ conference into a political forum by talking about elections and indirectly asking them to work for the success of the Congress.

Addressing a press conference, TDP leaders -- K. Vijayarama Rao, D. Veerabhadra Rao, P. Chandrasekhar and K. Harishwar Reddy -- said the conference appeared as if it were a pre-election meeting with the Chief Minister concentring on achieving targets instead of asking officials to find solution to pressing issues like price rise, power cuts, shortage of seeds, fertilizers and diesel.

‘Chalo Jubilee Hall’

They said the party would organise a “Chalo Jubilee Hall” (venue of the Collectors conference) on Thursday to highlight these problems.

It was strange that the Chief Minister and the Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy kept saying that there was no shortage of fertilizers and diesel while farmers left their farms to hit the roads, they said.

Mr. Harishwar Reddy wondered what happened to the government’s claim that the monsoon always favoured the Congress with sowings taken up only in 10 per cent of the cultivable area owing to deficit rainfall.

There was no contingency plan in place.

Plea not entertained

Mr. Vijayarama Rao and Mr. Veerabhadra Rao said the Chief Minister was putting tremendous pressure on Collectors and Superintendents of Police to oblige Congress leaders and approve whatever proposals they come up with. Petitions submitted by others were not even entertained.

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