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‘A session for serious discussion’

KHAMMAM: The Telugu Desam Party State executive meeting at Khammam on July 13 would be a special session for serious discussion, according to party district president and former Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday along with Nama Nageswara Rao and M. Baby Swarna Kumar and other senior leaders from the district unit, he said the party would hold the State executive for the first time outside the State headquarters.

It was an occasion with political significance in view of the move by the left parties to withdraw their support to the Congress-led UPA government at the centre, he said. The UPA had plans to go ahead with the nuclear agreement with the USA despite strong opposition from principal political parties in the country. The Samajwadi Party -- a constituent of the UNPA – siding with the Congress was also a key issue to be discussed at the meeting.

The TDP leader said that the Telangana issue, on which the party had already appointed a committee, would be on the agenda. Besides this, organizational matters such as desertion of some leaders in the wake of some new parties being launched in the State, would come up for discussion. He asserted that the desertion would not have any impact on the Telugu Desam.

Genuine workers would always be with the party in tough time. They had never craved for positions.

Those who had deserted the party in the hope of finding fresh meadows elsewhere had failed to make it big, he said.

He said be it Devender Goud or Vidyadhar Rao, they had all joined the party only after it came to power. The party had thrived on every crisis right from 1983 and emerged stronger in the State and national politics. It would not be en exception this time, he added.

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