PEOPLE ANGRY WITH POLITICAL PARTIES FOR NOT GIVING KALAM A SECOND TERM, SAYS CHANDRABABU NAIDU

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N Chandrababu Naidu claimed on Saturday that the people were angry with political parties, who were not extending support to President A P J Abdul Kalam for a second term for the Presidential post.

Talking to newspersons in Hyderabad, he said the people of the country favoured a second term for Dr Kalam, who was a man of the masses, and UNPA leaders had approached almost all the parties for their support for the President.

However, Naidu said the UNPA would not support the candidature of the Presidential nominees of the UPA and the NDA. He said the TDP would serve the public through the NTR Trust. NTR memorial schools and hospitals would be established in every district, and NRIs would be involved in the programme, he added.

Later, the TDP Chief inaugurated a mobile health van for providing medical assistance to the poor people as part of the NTR Trust Social Service.

Photo of Lokesh and Brahmani, the most-talked about couple in Andhra today

Balakrishna will enter politics soon, says Tarakaratna

A day after Nandamuri Balakrishna announced that he was not averse to joining politics if his fans want him to, his nephew Nandamuri Tarakaratna has said yesterday that his uncle would definitely enter politics some day. But we can't say when exactly, he added. Tarakaratna attended a party function in Cuddapah district yesterday. And speaking on the occasion, he told the people that Balakrishna would definitely enter politics and it was very soon.

Are you not ashamed of using my father's name? NTR's daughter Purandeshwari's letter missive to Chandrababu Naidu

N T Rama Rao's daughter and Daggubati Venkateswara Rao's wife Purandeswari has spewed venom on N Chandrababu for shamelessly using her father's name on the occasion of the party's silver jubilee celebrations. In a letter addressed to Chandrababu Naidu, she said, "You have conspired against him and snatched power from him. You didn't allow him to talk in the Assembly, and as a result for the first time in his life he bowed his head and walked away." Continuing her attack on Naidu, she said, "Are you not ashamed of using his name to pursue your interests? Especially when, in his last days, NTR had only contempt for you?"
She had a word of advice for Naidu, "Stop using NTR's name, lest people would not tolerate you."
And she had a word of advise for her brother Harikrishna too. "Harikrishna too should remember the humiliation Chandrababu has heaped on our father."

Are you listening Mr Harikrishna?