APCC refutes TDP President's charge

Hyderabad, Nov 20 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) today refuted Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu's charge that the Volkswagon plant was shifted to Maharashtra due to corrupt practices pursued by the state government.

Party spokepersons P Venkata Rao and N Thulasi Reddy, addressing a press conference at the party headquarters Gandhi Bhavan here said Mr Naidu was levelling baseless allegations only to mar the image of the Congress and the government for political advantage.

Alleging that the former state Chief Minister was resorting to blackmail politics, the Congress leaders charged Mr Naidu with creating a bad industrial atmosphere during his tenure and failed to create any infrastructure for the industrial growth besides not taken any steps to revive the sick units in the state.

The present government was creating infrastructure for the industrial growth to generate more employment, they said adding that the government was taking steps to provide title deeds to farmers, distributing lands to landless poor and to protect the interests of the beedi workers by asking the Centre to reduce the warning size on beedi packets.

At another press meet at the Congress Legislature Party office, G Muddu Krishnamma Naidu alleged that 35,000 smallscale industries were closed during the TDP regime in the state.

Though the TDP chief claimed that he was instrumental in bringing several industries, including car factories in the state' not a single unit had been established during the nine year TDP rule, he added.

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