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YSR no different from Naidu, says CPI leader

Staff Reporter

`Present Chief Minister, too, taking privatisation path'

ELURU: CPI State secretary K. Narayana hardly finds a difference between Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his bete noir and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with respect to replicating the World Bank model in the State.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday, he said Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy was slowly but steadily drifting into the influence of his political opponent in inviting privatisation in key sectors like health and education.

Private universities

In a bid to drive home his point, he cited the latest move of the Government to establish private universities in the State. He charged the Congress regime with making efforts to dilute the free power promise by trying to limit the facility to farmers who grow irrigated dry crops in rabi season under the influence of the World Bank. Recalling the saga of battles launched by the Left parties against the onslaught of the World Bank that ultimately sent Mr. Naidu packing, Mr. Narayana warned that Dr. Reddy, too, would have to meet the same fate if he followed in the footsteps of Mr Naidu.

Corruption

He said corruption had become `decentralised from top to bottom' in the Congress regime when it was `centralised' and contained only to the top echelons of governance during the TDP regime.

The CPI leader, however, expressed satisfaction with the performance of the Congress Government in irrigation, electricity, agriculture and cooperative sectors.

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