Andhra Pradesh

Congress facing certain defeat: TDP leader

Kakinada: Senior TDP leader K Kala Venkat Rao said that the Congress was facing certain defeat in the coming elections as it had miserably failed in achieving development, contrary to its claims that it had done certain things unprecedented in the State’s history. On its part, the TDP would explain what it did for the people in its nearly decade long rule and, forge electoral alliances with like-minded parties while cornering the government on the issue of corruption.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Mr. Rao said there could be no better proof of the irregularities in irrigation projects, than the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General which pointed to lapses amounting to huge losses to the exchequer. Besides, the Government had utterly failed in controlling inflation which had dealt a severe blow to the poor and middle classes. The so-called market intervention measures lacked direction and nothing was done to stabilize prices. There had been an astronomical spurt in the price of rice and the Government continued to gloss over the facts.

Mr. Rao further alleged that the Congress had scuttled debates in the Assembly on issues pertaining to people’s welfare and even the Speaker was made to silence the voice of the Opposition parties.

The Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues would rush through the proceedings and the Finance Minister K Rosaiah had always been articulating in misleading the opposition. The TDP and other parties were rarely given full freedom to put across their views on the wrongdoings of the ruling dispensation.

As regards the party’s stand on Telangana statehood, Mr. Venkat Rao said the core committee on Telangana was scheduled to meet in the next couple of days to sort out the contentious issue. Former Minister Chikkala Ramachandra Rao and former MLA V Venkateswara Rao were among those present.

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