Mahanadu kicks off at Gandipet

• TDP party cadres paint the venue yellow with party flags and festoons
• 15,000 delegates from T, AP take part
• Lokesh turns centre of attraction

Hyderabad: The euphoria over the victory of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the just concluded elections continued at the party’s annual convention, Mahanadu, which began at Gandipet here on Tuesday.

The entire route from Hyderabad to Gandipet turned yellow with party flags and festoons.

Around 15,000 delegates from Telangana and Seemandhra took part in the celebrations. There was festival like atmosphere at the venue with traditional drum beats and blaring music system playing the songs on the party founder, NT Rama Rao’s contribution to the State as a Chief Minister and the party president N Chandrababu Naidu’s services.

The TDP chief’s son Lokesh was not only the centre of attraction inside the venue but also prominently figured in the photos in all most all the billboards this time.

Naidu, who reached the venue at around 10.45 am, along with N Balakrishna registered his membership at the counter. Later, he hoisted the party flag marking the inauguration of the meeting.

Two photo exhibition centres at the venue attracted the visitors. The first photo exhibition featured pictures depicting life of NTR from his childhood to his last days in the State politics. The other one displayed the photos of Naidu’s early political career to his recent ‘Vastunna Meekosam’ walkathon and his meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Vehicular traffic came to a standstill as the parking space allotted in front of the meeting venue for the visitors was full with vehicles. Several leaders and the party workers failed to reach the venue in time.

TDP audit report indicates Rs 1.47 cr deficit

Hyderabad: Staying out of power for about a decade, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seems to have landed into financial crisis.

The audit report presented at the party annual convention, Mahanadu, indicates that the income of the party registered a deficit of Rs 1.47 crore for the year 2013-14.

The total income got from registration of the party members and rents from the party’s assets was Rs 3.99 crore.

Whereas the expenditure incurred for the party’s election campaign and office maintenance was Rs 5.47 crore. The total net assets owned the party was Rs 6.67 crore.

The party president N Chandrababu Naidu urged the party leaders to take up membership drive extensively in the Seemandhra, where the party won the election recently.

Naidu to bring reforms to curb corruption

• Resolution on ‘Corruption-free India – Reforms’ adopted
• Naidu stresses on electoral, economic and judicial reforms
• Wants Modi-government to bring back black money
• Short and long term action plans for Seemandhra’s development
• Suggests Centre to give priority to five important issues

Hyderabad: TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday asserted the need to bring in reforms to curb the unbridled corruption that not only brought the country to a grinding halt in the areas of development and welfare but also dented the country’ reputation during the last 10 years of Congress rule.

Adopting a resolution on ‘Corruption-free India – Reforms’, the Naidu said that the Congress-led UPA was riddled with corruption in all the sectors.

Over Rs one lakh crore was misused and the amount had gone into the personal accounts of the corrupt politicians, he added.

Coming down heavily on the former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and his son and YSRCP president YS Jaganmohan Reddy, he alleged that the mines and other natural resources were exploited for their economic benefits resulting in loss of thousands of crores of rupees revenue to the State exchequer.

“The TDP government will root out corruption in the next five years. The electoral, economic and judicial reforms are the need of the hour to develop the country,” Naidu stated.

He wanted the BJP-led NDA to bring back the black money stashed in foreign banks and use it for the welfare of the poor.

Stating that his government would prepare short and long term action plans for the holistic development of the Seemandhra, Naidu said the creation of corruption and poverty free society was not possible unless the reforms were enforced.

Naidu suggested the Centre to give priority to five important issues -- food and agriculture, production and training, control of fiscal deficit, strengthening of economy and sustainable growth -- in the next five years.

Srikakulam MP-elect K Rammohan Naidu said that under the leadership of Naidu and Modi, the economy would be streamlined by adopting good governance and transparency.