TDP to continue issue based support to BJP, allies

`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),’ 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 continue’.

The CM predicted that Congress would be totally `liquidated’ in due course. Questioning the Congress’ claim to provide political stability, he said, `On one hand, it (Congress) is denouncing coalition arrangements and on the other begging regional parties for alliance’.

Naidu ridiculed State Congress president Y S Rajasekhar Reddy’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 rehabilitation’.

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

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 from Orissa are causing malaria in border areas of the state.