Chief Minister targets 20 more Assembly seats
Hyderabad, May 14, 2008The Chief Minister, Dr.YS Rajasekhara Reddy delivering the concluding address at the 'Rededication Day', a one day plenum of the Congress party to mark the completion of four years in office on Wednesday. Addressing the gathering, the Congress party leaders and cadre asked to work for securing at least 51 percent votes in each constituency. The Chief Minister given the series of welfare programmes and many more in the line, it should not be difficult task for the party to win at least 20 more Assembly and five Lok Sabha seats in 2009 than the last elections. He expressed that the party had no objection if the Left Parties want to have an alliance. However, Congress prepared to go ahead on its alone.
Nearly 7,000 delegates have participated in the occasion. Senior leaders including M Satyanarayana Rao, V Purushottam Reddy and V Hanumantha Rao and Union Ministers S Jaipal Reddy and Renuka Chowdary were not present and a majority of the speakers focused on showering accolades on the dynamic leadership of the Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister claimed that K Chandrasekhara Rao would not have floated the TRS had he been inducted into the Cabinet after 1999 elections. The charged the CPI(M) for setting aside its principles in announcing that it would try to bring together the TDP and the proposed party by film star Chiranjeevi to defeat the Congress. He urged the people to compare the nine years rule of the TDP with that four years Congress rule and decide as to which party had kept its promises.
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