JD(U) rally in Davangere today

By Our Staff Correspondent

DAVANGERE, OCT. 15. The Janata Dal (United) Davangere unit has said that the State and Union governments were "anti-people". The party has decided to take out a protest rally in the city on Monday in protest against their "anti-people" policies. It would also submit a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday evening, Mr. Bhoj Raj, President of the unit, said that the Union Government had failed to prevent increase in prices of essential commodities and raised the prices of petroloeum prodcuts. This had caused difficulties to the common man. The NDA Government was not following its election manifesto. People had high expectations from the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B.Vajpayee, he added.

The State Government had also failed to take up any programme for the people. The Chief Minister, Mr. S.M.Krishna, was trying to improve information technology only instead of taking care of people's problems in rural areas. He asked whether the Chief Minister had annonced any steps for the welfare of the people in rural areas. The administration had come to a standstill. Mr. Krishna and his colleagues were saying that they were busy with the abduction issue whenever they were queried on administrative issues. The Government had failed to secure the release of Mr. Raj Kumar from the clutches of Veerappan. The Chief Minister should have tendered his resignation when the court made the observation that the Government should not stay in power if it could not secure the actor's release. He urged the Chief Minister to take alternative steps to secure his release immediately.

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