TDP, Left parties seek Chiru support to defeat Cong

The Telugu Desam Party, CPM and CPI on Friday urged the Prajarajyam Party to cooperate with them in defeating the Congress.

CPM state secretary B V Raghavulu, addressing workers of the three parties, said that the goal of the alliance partners and PRP was to defeat the ruling Congress. “If they are not willing to join the alliance, they should focus their energies on targeting the Congress, its corrupt practices and failures during the last four years instead of criticising the opposition.”

This “outside” support would dent the image of the ruling party and it would become easy to defeat it.

CPI leader S Sudhakar Reddy said that all secular parties were coming together at the national level and this front would win about 200 Lok Sabha seats in the coming elections. He said that the central leaders of the two Left parties along with TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu were making efforts to bring all the like-minded parties on to one platform.

The TDP general secretary Kadiam Srihari and Raghavulu criticised the government for showing “over enthusiasm,” in taking up Jalayagnam projects. They felt that it should have focussed on few projects and completed them in five years time. While the projects which were started in 2004 are incomplete it has now laid foundation stones for another three projects, Pranahita Chevella, north coastal sujala sravanthi and Konthalapalli projects worth Rs 71,000 crore.

He said this has landed the government into serious problems and it is not able to clear the bills of the contractors and as result they have stopped the works at several places, Srihari added.

Suggesting ways to nail the `lies’ of the Congress, Raghavulu said PRP should work out better strategies to expose the government. For example while the people, the ministers and officials are have been telling the government that superfine variety rice was not being sold in the open market for Rs 20 a kg as directed by the government, the chief minister is not willing to accept it. Such issues need to be highlighted, he said.

Stating that all three parties had come together with one point agenda and that was to defeat the Congress, Raghavulu expressed confidence that TRS would finally join the alliance. They are at present in the process of decision making and are considering various issues. The chances of joining TDP,CPM and CPI alliance were bright, he said.

Referring to the issue of big fish he said the chief minister should take responsibility for allowing such corrupt officials in the government and should charge sheet Y Suryanarayana and start investigations. Instead the government was dragging its feet, Raghavulu said.