The Hindu : TDP leaders' observations on Vajpayee flayed

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TDP leaders' observations on Vajpayee flayed

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD April 12. The BJP has denounced the reported observation of Telugu Desam Party leaders regretting their party's decision to back Atal Behari Vajpayee for the Prime Minister's post in 1999.

These reports had quoted unnamed TDP leaders as saying the party should have been more circumspect before offering its support to Mr. Vajpayee. "We would like to believe that these reports are not correct,'' said the Union Minister of State for Home, Ch. Vidyasagar Rao, and BJP spokesman, G. Kishan Reddy, at a press conference here on Friday.

The Union Minister sought to remind TDP leaders that they had successfully contested the Parliament and Assembly elections in an alliance with an appeal to people to favour Mr. Vajpayee as Prime Minister and Mr. Chandrababu Naidu as Chief Minister. Mr. Vajpayee had repaid his debt to the people by allocating hundreds of crores of rupees under various programmes.

He referred in particular to the sanction of Rs. 636 crores for the first and second phases of the PM Sadak Rozgar Yojana and nearly 20 lakh tonnes of rice valued at anywhere between Rs. 1,000 crores and Rs. 3,000 crores under the Food-for-work programme.

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