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| Mega alliance in Andhra Politics? |
 The Andhra Pradesh politics took another Mega turn yesterday. The Telugu Desham Party (TDP), Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and left party’s CPI (M), CPI given a clear indication on their alliance against Congress party.
Hyderabad, January 06: The Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday more than indicated that they, along with the two Left parties, will fight the 2009 general and assembly elections as alliance partners.
The leaders of the four parties met the President Mrs Prathibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan camp and also sought the dismissal of six ministers allegedly involved in the fisheries department executive engineer Suryanarayana scam. They demanded action against ‘Corrupt’ Rajashekhar Redy government in Andhra Pradesh.
In a sign of bonhomie, the TRS chief, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, later took the TD president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, the CPI (M) leader, B.V. Raghavulu, and the CPI leader, K. Narayana in one car from Rashtrapati Nilayam to his Banjara Hills residence for a sumptuous dinner.
Earlier in the evening, the TRS chief visited Chandrababu Naidu’s residence after a gap of eight years. Before the dinner, he announced that his party would take a political decision on the alliance on an auspicious day after Sankranti.
The TRS chief called Naidu his "friend of 20 years" and added that the issue of alliance would be discussed in party forums. "We will also take people into confidence." "Our goal is one," he added. "We have to defeat the incompetent and corrupt Congress government. We will have massive joint agitations."
He added that the CPI (M) stance on Telangana would be clarified before the grand alliance was set up. |
| Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni |
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| Published on: January 06, 2009 |
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