Cong., Left parties have formed 'unholy' alliance, says TDP

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 14. The Telugu Desam has charged the Congress and the Left parties with setting aside their own differences and conflicts and joining hands in an `unholy alliance' to create problems for its Government.

`Your (Congress) sole aim is power. For this you do not mind joining hands with anyone', the party general secretary, Mr. Lal Jan Basha, and the spokesman, Mr. R. Chandrasekhara Reddy, said at a press conference here on Wednesday.

Mr. Chandrasekhara Reddy said the Congress `took to the streets' in the States ruled by the Left parties and the Left parties returned the compliment in the Congress-run States on power reforms or related issues. In Andhra Pradesh, however, both came together to embarrass the TDP Government on the power tariff hike. As national parties, they could not have one policy in one State and a different one in the other. `Let them spell out their stand on power at the national level'.

It was a pity that the Congress which boasted of pioneering power reforms in Orissa and wanted them extended throughout the country was trying to scuttle the very same reforms in Andhra Pradesh for no other reason that the TDP was in power.

The `negative attitude' of the Congress was clear from its call to oppose the week-long (June 19-26) drive of the AP Transco to educate consumers about energy theft and encourage them to regularise unauthorized connections, the TDP leaders said.

The general secretary complimented the Government for taking up multi-purpose household survey which helped bring to light five lakh `bogus' cards in seven districts and hoped this would ultimately help the really poor people get their legitimate share of civil supplies.

Mr. Chandrasekhara Reddy said `some people' were already on the job of sowing seeds of suspicion in the minds of the gullible poor that the Government was trying to rob them of their ration cards. `We appeal to the people not to fall prey to such false propaganda'.

Meanwhile in the party office, there was renewed speculation that the party president, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, was seriously seized of constituting the State executive and announcing it at the earliest. On Wednesday, Mr. Naidu is understood to have discussed the issue individually with politburo members and senior leaders like Messrs P. Ashok Gajapati Raju, T. Devender Goud, Lal Jan Basha, K. Prabhakar Reddy and Chokkapu Suryanarayana.

Mr. Naidu also discussed the agenda for the June 18 broad-based meeting with party leaders.

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