Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu today launched a scathing attack on ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh and its breakaway leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as he covered a record 2,000-km under his ongoing foot march which he launched last year.
The former Chief Minister walked past the 2,000-km milestone here this evening under his `Vastunna Meekosam’ (I
am coming to you) foot march programme.
Naidu, who embarked on the walkathon on October 2, 2012 from Anantapur district to connect with the masses, has
set a record of sorts in padyatra in AP’s political history.
Before him, then Leader of Opposition Y S Rajasekhara Reddy of Congress had walked 1,468 km in 2003. The next year
Reddy led Congress to victory in the Assembly polls and became the Chief Minister.
My sole aim is to restore happiness in every family in the state. Let us all end this vicious Congress rule that
has wreaked havoc in everyone’s lives in the last nine years,” the 63-year-old Leader of Opposition told a large crowd that had gathered to cheer him at the NTR Circle here.
Be it electricity tariff, price of LPG, diesel, petrol or every essential commodity…they have skyrocketed in
the last few years.
“Hasn’t your life become miserable under the Congress regime? Were you not happy when the TDP ruled the state,” he
asked and the crowd responded with an emphatic “yes”.
Except plundering the state’s wealth and leaving common people in untold misery, the Congress did nothing in
the last nine years, he maintained.
The TDP leader in particular trained his guns on late Chief Minister Rajasekhara Reddy, his son and YSR Congress
President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
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