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Purandareswari treads cautiously on Chiranjeevi’s party

Staff Reporter

GUNTUR: If Praja Rajyam founder Chiranjeevi follows the footsteps of late NTR in championing the cause of the poor and oppressed, he will be welcomed by people of the State, says Union Minister of State for Human Resources Daggubati Purandareswari.

“Every one has his own style,” she quipped while brushing off speculation that the politician-turned-actor Chiranjeevi might do an NTR in capturing power. In a guarded reaction, she said that though Mr. Chiranjeevi had launched the party, he was yet to clearly spell out his stand on various issues.

Pro-poor policies

The Union Minister of State was also quick to add that the Congress-led State Government had been implementing the pro-poor policies which were once the brainchild of her father NTR.

“The State government has been implementing Indiramma housing, Rajiv Arogyasri and Rs.2-a-kg rice, which have been conceptualised by my father.

The TDP in its nine-year rule dumped the programmes,” she quipped.

Reacting to some of the portions of Mr. Chiranjeevi’s speech at Tirupati in which he faulted the government for selling away farm lands, she said that the government had in principle decided against acquisition of farm lands.

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