Party to organise meets in 12 districts on BJP’s betrayal

Amaravati: Continuing protests against the Central government and the BJP, the TDP is planning to organise the ‘Nammaka Droham– Kutra Rajakeeyalu’ (Treachery–Conspiracy politics) public meetings across the remaining 12 districts in the state on the lines of meeting held at Tirupati on April 30.

Addressing the leaders at party coordination committee meeting held at CM’s residence at Undavalli on Wednesday, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu stated the next public meeting will be held in Visakhapatnam and the final meeting will be held in Amaravati in January next year.

Naidu said the second public meeting will be organised before Mahanadu to be organised at Vijayawada from May 27 to 29. Stating that the Dalitha Tejam public meeting will be organised in Nellore in the first week of June, Naidu said the party will also organise another public meeting targeting minorities in the state.

The minorities public meeting will be organised on May 14 at Guntur, he added. After attending the coordination committee meeting, party state president Kimidi Kala Venkat Rao stated the public protest meetings will be organised across the state highlighting the conspiracy politics of BJP.

He observed that the Dharma Porata Deeksha, a one-day hunger strike by the Chief Minister at Vijayawada on April 20 and the protest meeting organised at Tirupati got good response from all sections of people.

During the meeting, Naidu pointed out Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to bring back black money stashed abroad. He further blamed that the BJP was doing conspiracy politics in Andhra Pradesh by colluding with the opposition YSRCP.

Criticising the YSRCP for organising Vanchana Deeksha public meeting in Visakhapatnam on the same day when TDP held another public meeting in Tirupati, Naidu suspected hidden agenda behind it.

Instead of demanding Special Category Status (SCS) for the state from Central government and blaming them for their failure in granting it, YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was making baseless criticism on TDP to save the BJP.

Minister for information and public relations Kalava Srinivasulu stated the Tirupati public meeting was a warning to Prime Minister and it exposed that the Central government did not do justice to the state on many issues, not only in granting SCS.

In the meeting, Naidu directed the cadre to actively participate in all the government and party meetings. He said that there will be at least one public programme per week on implementation of government welfare schemes or development activities or launching new programmes and inaugurations of completed projects.

He said the party will organise public meetings simultaneously across the state treating it as political year. Recalling his experience in working with commitment to the party, Naidu stated in 1986, the party organised a rally from Goshamahal to Parade Grounds in Hyderabad, a 13 km stretch in mid-summer.

In that rally, all the party leaders including Cabinet ministers walked with commitment. He suggested the party workers to take inspiration from such events in the past and work for strengthening the party at grass-root level.

Naidu hoped the state government’s welfare schemes will play crucial role in voting TDP to power in 2019 general elections. He asked the leaders to educate public on welfare schemes being implemented in the state. In the coordination committee meeting, ministers including Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, Ayyanna Patrudu, Atchannaidu, K S Jawahar, P Pulla Rao, party general secretaries, MLAs, MPs, MLCs and others participated.