Telugu Desam is all set to change its strategy on the floor of the House from disruption that often led to adjournment to staying inside and mounting a focussed attack on government.
Sources said the party has belatedly realised that its earlier strategy of its members rushing to the podium on slightest of provocations was not only harming its reputation but giving a breather to the government and enabling it to run away from ticklish issues and debates.
Instead, the party wants to adopt a policy mix of restraint and attack- when- warranted while taking precaution not to allow the government to escape by adjourning the House.
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The strategy was discussed elaborately at the Telugu Desam Legislature Party meeting here on Monday. As part of these efforts, the Leader of the Opposition, N. Chandrababu Naidu, is constituting a much smaller compact strategy teams of party MLAs that would meet every morning all through the budget session to review and decide on the stand to be taken for the day. Larger meetings with MLAs was not yielding good results, he is believed to have observed.
The party has also decided to work out ways of better floor coordination with other Opposition parties, though it knows that it was a challenging task given its ambivalent stand on Telangana. Already the TRS has taken the initiative of calling a meeting of the like minded pro- Telangana parties like CPI and BJP to push forward its single point agenda of separate State.
At a press conference after the TDLP meeting, deputy leaders, Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu and P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju said the party would expose the Government's corruption and other irregularities.
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