Chiru rules out post-poll support for Congress, TD

Chiru rules out post-poll support for Congress, TD
http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/06/stories/2009040655180100.htm

Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi has ruled out the possibility of supporting either the Congress or the TDP after the elections, saying he does not see any scope for doubts about his party’s performance.

He averred that his party would cross the ‘magic figure’ (half-way mark of 147 Assembly seats) and get the majority required for forming the government in the State. “There is no confusion in the minds of the people. If there is any confusion, it is in the Opposition parties,” he said.
‘No support for BJP’

The Praja Rajyam would also not support the BJP-led alliance at the national level as his party was secular and there was no scope of extending support to a Congress-led alliance, he said while replying to queries at the ‘Meet-The-Press’ programme organised by the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists here on Sunday. Mr. Chiranjeevi ruled out the possibility of backing the proposed Third Front as the Telugu Desam was a party in it. “I have a gut feeling about the emergence of a fourth front and that will be our alliance,” he said. Denying allegations that the PR leadership had collected huge amounts of money from aspirants to allot party tickets, he blamed the Opposition parties of successfully running a smear campaign against his party.
Opposition weak

Mr. Chiranjeevi said the Opposition was weak and could not effectively highlight the lapses committed by the government. The “mistakes” committed by the TDP during its rule was inhibiting it from raising corruption and related issues. The PR, he asserted, would order an inquiry into the “wealth amassed by Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and take steps to recover the money” rather than sit on the probe reports like the TDP and Congress Governments did.

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