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Naidu dares YSR to contest from Kuppam

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Jubilant mood: TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu with Congress and Praja Rajyam activists who joined the Telugu Desam in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday dared Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to contest from his Kuppam constituency having a record of free and fair polls.

Mr. Naidu who was speaking after inducting about 100 Congress functionaries and workers of his constituency into the party said unlike Dr. Reddy’s constituency of Pulivendula in Kadapa where his supporters of ‘doubtful antecedents’ have a field day resorting to all possible election malpractices, the situation was different in Kuppam.

In fact people of his constituency were so peace-loving and law abiding that most of the police stations had no work till the Congress came to power, he said. “So let Dr. Reddy contest from Kuppam and I doubt his victory from Pulivendula if free and fair elections are held there like in Kuppam,” he added.

He also gave a call to the leaders who left the party to return as “the party is all set to retain its past glory.” Listing the development projects he had initiated in his constituency when he was Chief Minister, he charged the present government with taking ‘political revenge’ on him by scrapping projects and denying funds to the constituency.

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