The BJP’s election campaign committee president and former Union Minister Daggupati Purandeswari told to the people to consider her as one of the daughter of Rayalaseema, just as they considered her father N.T. Rama Rao as one of the son. While addressing the Kadapa district-level party meeting in A.B. Chandra Reddy gardens at Rajampet, she said that if BJP comes into power, she would ask the BJP leadership to set up a steel plant in Kadapa, in addition to the one proposed at Khammam, and also to establish a railway project at Nandalur in Rajampet constituency.
Purandeshwari promised to strive for development of the backward Rayalaseema region and safeguard its irrigation interests. Ms. Purandeswari said, she had quit the Congress, none including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Core Committee or AICC leaders gave credence to her contention that bifurcation of the State would jeopardise the economy of the State. Polavaram project would submerge 134 villages in eight mandals and not seven mandals as being projected, she said. Asserting that the State forged ahead due to the hard work put in by farmers and the working classes, she recited Sri Sri’s sayings.
Purandeshwari called upon the people to vote the BJP to power and make Narendra Modi Prime Minister, as he was a leader with a vision. Former Union Minister and actor U.V. Krishnam Raju said voting for the BJP would hasten development of Rayalaseema. The 60-month-rule of Narendra Modi would be better than the 60-year-rule of Congress, he asserted. The surcharge was higher than the power tariff itself, which was an example of the maladministration of Congress. Film actor Sivaji called on the people to just clean sweep the Congress in Andhra Pradesh.
