CPI slams Naidu snub on all-party meet
VIJAYAWADA: Taking umbrage at Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu ignoring the CPI's demand for an all-party meeting to devise a strategy to pressurize the Centre honour its promises to the state, its state secretary K Ramakrishna told newsmen that the party's three-day state conference beginning here on March 3 would deliberate the issue and draw up a plan of action to force the CM to accept its demand.
The CPI leader flayed Naidu for going on foreign jaunts spending crores of rupees even as he was stating that the state was on the brink of bankruptcy.
'If the state has deficit budget, he should go to Delhi and bring pressure on the Prime Minister for release funds but not go to Singapore as such a trip will fetch nothing except end up in unnecessary expenditure,' he added.
Ramakrishna said Naidu was trying to hoodwink the people of the state by making fresh promises though he had no money in the state government's coffers and added that the people should understand his political game-plan.
Instead, Naidu should concentrate on pressurising the Centre to implement the promises made at the time of division of united AP and those mentioned in the AP State Reorganisation Act such as ther grant of Special Status to AP, special packages for Rayalaseema and North Andhra and location of various central institutions across AP.
He said that the CPI's state conference, which would begin with a rally and a public meeting at Swaraj Maidan on March 3, would discuss threadbare these issues apart from the need for improved coordination among the various left parties. It would also make a fresh resolve to work for solution to problems faced by the disadvantaged sections of people, he added.
News Posted: 18 February, 2015
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