TDP to continue issue based support to BJP

HYDERABAD, JULY 23: Telugu Desam supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today predicted sweep for National Democra...

HYDERABAD, JULY 23: Telugu Desam supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today predicted sweep for National Democratic Alliance NDA in the coming elections to Lok Sabha and said his party8217;s support to the BJP-led coalition would continue in future.

Naidu, however, remained non-committal on poll alliance between TDP and BJP, maintaining that he would spell out the party8217;s stand at appropriate time.

The Congress, which has destabilised successive governments at the Centre, will not get an opportunity to repeat the act this time around since it will not be able to reach three digit figure in Lok Sabha,8217; he told reporters here.

Asked whether his party would join the coalition in the event of NDA forming the next government at the Centre, the TDP chief said, I have already told you that we are only extending issue based support to the Vajpayee government and this policy will continue8217;.

The CM predicted that Congress would be totally liquidated8217; in due course. Questioning theCongress8217; claim to provide political stability, he said, On one hand, it Congress is denouncing coalition arrangements and on the other begging regional parties for alliance8217;.

Naidu ridiculed State Congress president Y S Rajasekhar Reddy8217;s promise to revive the legislative council if his party was voted to power in the coming Assembly polls and said, Our founder leader NTR had taken the decision to abolish the council in mid-1980s as it was a burden on the exchequer. The Congress is reviving the idea only to serve as a centre for political rehabilitation8217;.

He was interacting with the media after participating in a teleconference with district collectors to review implementation of health programmes and other developmental schemes.

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Meanwhile, the Chief Minister spoke to his Orissa counterpart Giridhar Gomang over telephone to impress upon him the need for the neighbouring state to take necessary steps to check the menace of mosquitoes.

The A P health officials argue that swarms of mosquitoes fromOrissa are causing malaria in border areas of the state.