No truck with TDP: Chiranjeevi

Tirupati, July 20: Praja Rajyam will contest all the 150 divisions in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the ensuing elections.

Announcing this at a press conference here today, PRP president Chiranjeevi said the party was ready to ally with the Left parties, if they come forward for an electoral pact. The PRP would have no truck with Telugu Desam and its relations with the TDP was limited to public issues. “The PRP is ready to work with the TDP on burning issues like the price rise,’’ he said.

On the Babli dam issue, he said the Congress Government should exert pressure on the Centre to force the Maharashtra Government to stop the project works immediately. If the project was completed, the northern Telangana would be dry, he said, urging the State Government to take the opposition parties into confidence in exerting pressure on the Centre to get the dam works stopped.

Answering a question about DMK’s objection to the allotment of `Rising Sun’ symbol to the PRP by the Election Commission, he said there was nothing wrong in allotting the symbol of one regional party to another regional party of a different State. The `Cycle’ symbol was allotted to the TDP in Andhra Pradesh and to Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. He, however, hastened to add that it was a matter between the DMK and Election Commission.

The PRP MLA set up a core committee with seven local leaders to solve people’s problems in his Tirupati Assembly constituency. Each member would act as a coordinator between people and a particular department.

The members include Ooka Vijayakumar (Revenue), P Mallikharjun (Police). S Subbaramaiah (TTD), Mabbu Sekhar Reddy (Panchayat Raj), Narasimhachari (Municipal Corporation), C Sarvottam (Hospitals) and Social Welfare and Hostels (Ashok Samrat Yadav).

Addressing Chiranjeevi Seva Dal activists later, the PRP president said it was unfortunate that no State Congress leader figured in the list of new governors appointed by the Centre.

Though it was an internal matter of the Congress, I was unhappy to note that no one from the State Congress was chosen for the gubernatorial post despite having several seasoned leaders like M Satyanarayana Rao, who rendered valuable services to the party and to the people, he said.

–Agencies–