Date:02/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/02/stories/2008020255240600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

‘Naidu misleading people’

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Finance Minister K. Rosaiah has criticised Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu for trying to give wrong impression to the people of the State that elections are close by.

He also objected to the claims being made by Mr. Naidu in his speeches at public meetings that higher amounts were spent in different sectors during the Telugu Desam regime.

At a press conference here on Friday, Mr. Rosaiah said Mr. Naidu was behaving as if the Assembly elections were due in three months.