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Naidu worships at Tirupathamma temple

G.V. Ramana Rao

PENUGANCHIPROLU (Krishna district): Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday vowed to transform Penuganchiprolu, the village famous for the temple of goddess Sri Tirupathamma Ammavaru, into a pilgrim and tourism centre.

Mr. Naidu, who stayed here overnight as part of his ‘Meekosam’ roadshows, spent over an hour on the temple premises and offered puja to the deity.

Statues unveiled

Addressing a gathering after unveiling the first of the half a dozen statues of Telugu Desam Party founder N.T. Rama Rao that he unveiled at different places, Mr. Naidu said that the temple had a revenue of Rs. 5 crores a year and it was the 11th largest temple in terms of revenue in the State.

Besides reiterating the promises relating to free power, free cooking gas connection, free three-gram gold mangalasutra and the like, Mr. Naidu addressed grievances of local nature in the villages he visited in Jaggayyapeta Assembly Constituency.

In Subbannagudem village, he rapped Jaggayyapeta MLA and Government Whip Samineni Udayabhanu for booking police cases against village sarpanch Velidi Srinivasa Rao just for launching an agitation demanding development of the village.

He said it was a pity that elected representatives were filing police cases against people who were asking them to fulfil their promises.

Mr. Naidu asked what right the Congress leaders had to object to installation of an NTR statue in the village.

“Is it acceptable for Congress leaders to put up pictures of the entire family of Jawaharlal Nehru right up to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi?” the TDP chief asked, adding there was nobody more deserving than NTR for installing statues as he transformed the State.

If youth started all new endeavours after paying tributes to the statue of NTR, they would succeed.

Mr. Naidu alleged that APCOB Chairman and former Minister Vasantha Nageswara Rao had denied them the benefits of the loan waiver scheme by making a book adjustment and showing that farmers had repaid loans and fresh loans were re-issued to them.

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