TDP to get into action mode

HYDERABAD: The newly-constituted state executive of the TDP which met here on Wednesday, has decided to put the party in action mode by deciding

to pin down ministers for their failures, but spare chief minister K Rosaiah for the time being.

The party which was lying low ever since the death of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has now decided to take on the government for its omissions and commissions.

The party and its president N Chandrababu Naidu have been adopting a soft stance towards Rosaiah, and on several occasions in the past two months, both Naidu and Rosaiah have shared the same platform. The party, it seems, wants to continue the same stand for some more time, that being one of the reasons for supporting the government's decision to file a review petition in Supreme Court on its decision to declare Hyderabad as free zone for administrative purposes.

The state executive also called upon the rank and file to gear up for the ensuing GHMC polls as a notification in this regard is expected soon. But the internal bickerings in the party came to fore on this issue since T Srinivas Yadav and former deputy speaker K Harishwar Reddy who was hoping to be inducted into the politburo kept out of the meeting. Harishwar Reddy has been made as one of the vice-presidents. He was also opposed to readmitting T Devender Goud who had quit the party before polls and joined PRP.

Later briefing the media, politburo member K Yerranaidu said that the executive was of the opinion that all the advisors in YSR's government should quit and give a free hand to Rosaiah to constitute his own team.

Referring to reports of possibility of a conspiracy behind YSR's death in chopper crash, the party demanded a full-fledged inquiry and said that pending inquiry the chairman of advisory committee on public security K V P Ramachandra Rao should resign. If the DGP can be removed for negligence in duty why not the advisor, he said. The party also condemned the government's move to issue a GO fixing creamy layer for the backward classes and demanded it to take back the decision.