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No change in our stand: TDP

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD May 1. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, says that his party will continue to press for the resignation of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.

Talking to mediapersons who met him at NTR Bhavan here on Wednesday, Mr. Naidu said there was no change in the party's stand on the issue, regardless of the defeat of the censure motion against the National Democratic Alliance Government in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day. He blamed the Opposition parties for not being serious enough and diverting the focus of the House proceedings from the issue at stake.

Mr. Naidu followed the better part of the marathon debate including the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's reply and was in regular touch with his MPs. Party leaders admitted that it was a setback for them that the main demand — resignation of Mr. Modi — was not conceded.

However, the Prime Minister's announcement of the Rs. 150-crore package for the Gujarat victims was some consolation. The party had put forward four demands — resignation of Mr. Modi, restoration of normalcy and effective maintenance of law and order, rehabilitation of the victims and no snap elections in the riot-torn State.

Barring the change of leadership in Gujarat, the other demands were more or less met, they said.

The Gujarat issue figured briefly at the Cabinet meeting today when Mr. Naidu is said to have explained to his colleagues the party's limitations and compulsions in dealing with a "friendly" Government at the Centre.

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