Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad   

Raghuveera ridicules opposition ‘unity’

HYDERABAD: The Congress has described the new-found unity among the opposition parties as ‘politics of show’ and said people were bemused at it.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy said the opposition parties had lost credibility. He found fault with them for not championing the cause of weavers and farmers.

The Minister said that the Telugu Desam Party, Left and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti had different ideologies and the only thing that united them was their opposition to Congress.

He termed such unprincipled unity was unsustainable and that people were not going to trust them.

Taking a dig at the farmers’ rally organised by the opposition, the Minister remarked that the erstwhile TDP government pushed the farmers to end their lives owing to mounting debts. He asked these parties whether they wanted the Congress to be voted out because it had provided free power, waived loans, gave incentives and distributed seed subsidy and got crops insured.

At a separate press conference, Chief Whip N. Kiran Kumar Reddy criticised TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu for ‘lowering the stature of the leader of the opposition by politicising every issue in the Assembly to derive political mileage’. He rebutted the opposition charge that top brass of the police were arbitrarily transferred, Mr. Reddy remarked that the same force worked during the TDP regime too.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Rural youth get a feel of electronic media
Regularisation of 30,000 houses in coal belt
Bail plea dismissed
PR leaders discuss roadmap for future
Work on NH-9 likely to commence soon
Rama Raju critical
Literary award
Phishing on the rise: CERT
YSR rebuts ‘factionalist’ charges
Quota in private institutions
Did Naidu, KCR have dinner meeting?
OCTOPUS: Jana assures faster recruitment
TDP leader challenges YSR
NMDC to reduce iron ore prices
Confusion over Inter marks weightage cleared
Power theft cases to be withdrawn
Security stepped up at Shamshabad airport
Package to boost infrastructure
Leopard scare hits Peerzadiguda Mandal
Fear of big cat haunts residents of Peerzadiguda
Security tightened at airport
Air power
This rapper’s a jack of all
Book on archaeology released
Maytas Infra bags rural electrification project
Transcription in a jiffy
Permission for transfer of defence land given
Big cat creates scare on city outskirts
Child labour thrives in old city
Bike sales hit by the global meltdown Recession Effect
Power shutdown Utilities
Pirate institutes may face the heat
‘Chalo Assembly’ by farmers foiled
‘Borrowings only for capital expenditure’
Raghuveera ridicules opposition ‘unity’
‘State apathetic to combating terrorism’
EDSA workshop
BJP criticises MIM address
BJP seeks probe into Santoshnagar shootout
Fatal fall from hospital
Senior officials’ squabble reaches peak
Security at RGIA intensified
Lift’s the problem for these officers
16 stolen two-wheelers recovered, six held
Terror suspects wanted to ‘neutralise’ targets
Hyderabad today

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu