Chandrababu Naidu elected TDP national president unanimously
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) completed the formality of electing N. Chandrababu Naidu as the party's national president unanimously at the Mahanadu here on Wednesday.
Party election committee chairman Varla Ramaiah announced Mr. Naidu's election to the top party post and administered the oath to him amid thunderous applause.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Naidu said he was thankful to everyone for giving him the responsibility yet again, and that collective efforts should be made to translate the six resolutions (that were passed earlier) into reality. The resolutions laid the roadmap for the next 40 years, he said, and pointed out that the TDP weathered many a storm in the last 43 years, and asserted that it had the capacity to be a vibrant entity for many more years to come.
Some of the challenges successfully faced by the TDP were Naxalism and factionalism, and more recently, land scams, ganja and drugs and many other things during the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) rule. He observed that law and order had gone for a toss in 2019-24 and the situation was getting to normal under the NDA regime.
Mr. Naidu said he gave due priority to the development of Rayalaseema with focus on completing the long-pending irrigation projects, and that the interlinking of rivers would make the parched region fertile.
The State was able to garner substantial funding from the Central government for the construction of Amaravati and several other projects with the support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said.
Mr. Naidu stated that the Polavaram project would be completed and dedicated to the nation by the end of 2027.
The TDP supremo said the government had drawn up plans to transform Visakhapatnam into a financial hub, and that he opposed the privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and was in the process of getting ArcelorMittal-Nippon Steel to set up a huge plant in Anakapalli district.
He announced that foundation would be laid for the Kadapa steel plant in 10 days and expressed confidence that he would be the one inaugurating it. The three-Million-tonne per annum steel plant was being established by the Jindal Group in two phases at a cost of ₹9,000 crore.
The government was developing industrial parks in all the 175 constituencies, setting up Ratan Tata Innovation Hubs in Amaravati, Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry, Tirupati, and Anantapur. Due focus had been laid on improving the lot of farmers, Mr. Naidu said, while affirming that the government was moving forward with a fine balance between development and welfare.
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