TRS hasn't fulfilled its promises
People losing faith in TRS Ministers
YSR's foreign visit inopportune
Nothing new to study on water use

HYDERABAD July 05 2005: The Telugu Desam Party on Monday termed the resignation by TRS Ministers "opportunistic political drama" aimed at covering up its own failures.

In the same vein, the party criticised the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, for going ahead with his "birthday celebrations abroad" at a time when a "political and constitutional crisis" had been caused by the resignations.

"It is a strange situation where the TRS left the coalition and the Chief Minister leaves the country," the TDP leaders, K. Yerran Naidu, R. Chandrasekhara Reddy and S. Venugopala Chary said while addressing a press conference here on Monday.

They said for 14 months, the TRS did nothing to fulfil the promises it made to people. The TRS Ministers hankered after power and clung on to their chairs. People were fast losing faith in them and they came up with this desperate attempt. That they were not serious could be gauged from the way they gave their resignations to the Governor and not the Chief Minister.

The TDP leaders said there was nothing official about Dr. Reddy's visit as his family was accompanying him. Moreover, there was nothing new to study about effective use of water and micro irrigation, as the State had been a pioneer in the field under TDP rule.

They said the report prepared by the task force on micro irrigation programme, headed by the former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, was appreciated by all States. Instead of implementing the recommendations, the Government had been diluting them.

It was able to cover only 12,000 acres of the promised two lakh acres. The subsidy component had been brought down from 90 per cent to 50 per cent, they said.