TDP comes up with more promises

HYDERABAD: Free supply of subsidised rice, doubling the monthly quota, waiver of jewel loans, houses for government employees and free supply of LPG under Deepam scheme are to be included in the Telugu Desam manifesto for the Assembly elections.
These promises are among the 208 listed out in a booklet circulated among the Polit Bureau members, other important leaders, MPs, MLAs, MLCs of the party who attended a brainstorming session, stated to be the first of the preparatory meetings for the coming elections. TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, was the key speaker.
These promises were categorised into welfare of the poor, farmers, women, youth, backward classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Completion of irrigation projects with vigour, crop loan waiver to be extended to all farmers, piped supply of LPG in towns and free education for the economically backward were the other promises.
Meanwhile, inaugurating the meet, Mr. Naidu called upon the leaders to gear up for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections slated in the next six months. The schedule of these elections could be decided by the next Lok Sabha session scheduled in October. The survival of the UPA government was becoming difficult as more members who had defied party whips in the confidence vote are likely to be disqualified.

All-round failure

With no section of the people happy with the government, the TDP would romp home in the next elections, he asserted. He wanted the party leaders to highlight the all-round failure of the State government, especially corruption, the way it could not control price rise, extend crop loan waiver to all farmers, ensure
Minimum Support Price of Rs. 1000 per quintal of paddy and pushed the women’s self help groups into debt trap by promising “pavla vaddi” but levying compounding interest.