08-18-2007, 09:59 PM
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
Sensing the possibility of a mid-term election, all major political parties in Andhra Pradesh are preparing hard.<b> While the ruling Congress held a meeting of its State Executive as well as Legislature to assess the preparation of the party, the Telugu Desam Party and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti have started the exercise of oiling their organisational machineries. </b>
TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao has constituted a 94-member State committee including heads of all the Telangana districts while a new executive of the Telugu Desam Party on Saturday took charge when its members were administered the oath of office by party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
Speaking on the occasion, Naidu asked the party men to.<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> be ready for the elections "They can come any time," he said referring to the unfolding political scenario at the national level in the backdrop of the gap between the Congress and the Left over the nuclear deal with the United States. </span>
He told the party office bearers to realise the role the State committee will play when the elections are round the corner. He asked the party to prepare a comprehensive plan to expose corruption and anti-people policies of the Reddy Government in the State.
The newly constituted party executive took oath at the party headquarters at NTR Trust Bhavan. The Executive also met and discussed the current political situation.
Gandhi Bhavan, the State Congress headquarters, was also a beehive of activity with top party leaders attending the meeting amid indications that the party was looking at the possibility of early election.
The meeting was held a day after Reddy met the party president Sonia Gandhi and other top leaders of the party in New Delhi. Sources said that the Chief Minister and State Congress president K Keshav Rao have received signals from the High Command that the party in the State should start gearing up for the possibility of a mid-term election.
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
Sensing the possibility of a mid-term election, all major political parties in Andhra Pradesh are preparing hard.<b> While the ruling Congress held a meeting of its State Executive as well as Legislature to assess the preparation of the party, the Telugu Desam Party and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti have started the exercise of oiling their organisational machineries. </b>
TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao has constituted a 94-member State committee including heads of all the Telangana districts while a new executive of the Telugu Desam Party on Saturday took charge when its members were administered the oath of office by party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
Speaking on the occasion, Naidu asked the party men to.<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> be ready for the elections "They can come any time," he said referring to the unfolding political scenario at the national level in the backdrop of the gap between the Congress and the Left over the nuclear deal with the United States. </span>
He told the party office bearers to realise the role the State committee will play when the elections are round the corner. He asked the party to prepare a comprehensive plan to expose corruption and anti-people policies of the Reddy Government in the State.
The newly constituted party executive took oath at the party headquarters at NTR Trust Bhavan. The Executive also met and discussed the current political situation.
Gandhi Bhavan, the State Congress headquarters, was also a beehive of activity with top party leaders attending the meeting amid indications that the party was looking at the possibility of early election.
The meeting was held a day after Reddy met the party president Sonia Gandhi and other top leaders of the party in New Delhi. Sources said that the Chief Minister and State Congress president K Keshav Rao have received signals from the High Command that the party in the State should start gearing up for the possibility of a mid-term election.
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