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By Express News Service - KURNOOL
16th October 2012 09:03 AM
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu assured farmers of providing sustained assistance to bail them out of losses if his party was voted to power in 2014 elections.
He promised to waive their loans provide adequate water for irrigation through the high-level canal (HLC) of Tungabhadra.
On the 15th day of his yatra, Naidu said that drought conditions were prevailing in Kurnool district constantly. "This is pushing farmers into more debts," he said.
Naidu underlined the importance of linking up agriculture with the NREGS. This will help the farming sector, he said.
He said he would give priority to supply of adequate drinking and irrigation water. In what seemed to be a response to TRS leader Etela Rajender's remarks on Sunday that the TDP chief and late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy's daughter Sharmila were hungry for power, Naidu said that he had taken up the padayatra to personally know about people's problems. "I am not hungry for power," he said.
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His giving in to the demands of bifurcation of the state by KCR and company thereby agreeing to divide the Telugu speaking people just in the fashion that BJP is saying that if elected and brought to power they will sanction Telangana immediately is going to cost dearly for TDP in the coastal and north Andhra regions. People cannot digest the truncation of the state just because KCR is demanding for it. What is that self rule they are talking about also needs to be explained by TDP if they agreed to side with TRS. Is Telangana going to be an State independent of India? If not why the division is required. Just because the Telangana politicians feel that they are not getting their cuts in the spoils from the Seemandhra Politicians they want their own State? They can negotiate and arrive at a sharing agreement. that should be much easier and no one else will be disturbed.
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