The three-day Mahanadu, the annual delegates conference of the TDP, began here on Thursday with its president N. Chandrababu Naidu declaring that an action plan would be chalked out to launch a struggle against the anti-people policies of the Central and State governments.
Inaugurating the event, organised at the sprawling Telugu Vijayam at Gandipet after a gap 16 years, he said that any programme which was launched from this venue had ended in success. The details of the action plan would be finalised at the Mahanadu. With the party for the first time appointing area in-charges, they too were invited to the meet, swelling the number of participants by several thousands.
Party sources said Mr. Naidu was keen on utilising the event to enthuse the cadres to win back the confidence of all sections by taking up agitations on people's problems and regaining the glory of the organisation. It was a sea of yellow as all roads leading to the venue were decorated with buntings, festoons and hoardings carrying pictures of Mr. Naidu, his son Lokesh and other TDP leaders.
Accusing the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress regime in the State of deceiving people, he said both the dispensations were steeped in corruption, totally neglected farmers and failed to deliver welfare programmes for weaker sections.
Dubbing the CBI as ‘Congress Bureau of Investigation', the TDP president accused the UPA government of using the investigation agency to blackmail political rivals and surviving in power.
Rise in income
Although the income of the Centre increased steeply due to higher collections of income tax, netting of Rs.67,000 crore through auction of 3G spectrum, the government was planning to sell ‘navaratnas', unable to take up welfare schemes.
While the State progressed and income went up due to the development programmes initiated during TDP rule, it witnessed deceleration under the present government. The Congress promised many impractical schemes to garner votes and cited how the total cost of irrigation projects under Jalayagnam had escalated to a whopping Rs. 3 lakh crore.
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