"Congress Neglecting Flood Victims"

Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu on Tuesday spewed venom at Congress leaders of the State, by alleging that they were more concerned about seeking the blessings of AICC president Sonia Gandhi to protect their berths than the misery of flood-affected people in coastal Andhra.

Speaking to media persons at the TDLP office, Muddukrishnama Naidu stated that Chief Minister K Rosaiah, along with his party leaders, were busy attending the Congress Working Committee meetings at New Delhi, when they should have been directing relief and rescue operations in the areas affected by torrential rains. He said that the meetings had led to the State administration neglecting people's problems.

Stating that the administration in the State came to a standstill, Naidu said the State had witnessed 17 natural calamities and sought Rs. 50,000 crore for restoration works. However, the Centre had released only Rs. 15,000 crore for relief works, the TDP leader stated.

When MPs and ministers from other states were working for materialization of their projects, the State's MPs were seeking blessings of Soniaji by praising her, Naidu charged.

Naidu alleged that both Chief Minister K Rosaiah and Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah were cheating the people of the State by claiming that the Centre had accorded national status for Polavaram Irrigation Project.

Demanding the Irrigation Minister's resignation, the TDP leader alleged the minister was delaying the execution of projects in order to get commission from contractors.

The TDP leader said that Rajya Sabha MP and Union Environmental Minister Jairam Ramesh, who was elected twice from the State, was acting against the interests of State by not giving environmental clearance to the irrigation projects.

Naidu alleged that the 33 Congress MPs from the State had failed to get national project status for Polavaram, Pranahitha and Chevella projects.

The senior leader stated that the MPs' trips to New Delhi without any concrete results were a sheer wastage of public money.

The TDP leader took strong objection to the statements of Congress leaders against party president N Chandrababu Naidu on microfinance institutions.

Demanding that the Congress leaders withdraw their comments, Naidu said that the TDP would intensify its protest and create awareness on MFIs' arm-twisting measures until the government made its stand clear on the ordinance.

Courtesy: INN
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