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Twelve lakh people attended TDPs 'Yuva Garjana' rally  It was a sea of humanity on a sprawling 140-acre ground right opposite the Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
An unprecedented turnout of over 12 lakh people for its Yuva Garjana (roar of youth) rally has virtually placed the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), particularly its supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, on cloud nine. Naidu said the turnout for the youth rally surpassed the previous record set by the TDP for its Simha Garjana, a political gathering it conducted on the eve of general elections. "This is unprecedented and gives a clear signal that the TDP is on the way back to power in Andhra Pradesh," an elated Naidu observed. Traffic came to a grinding halt on the busy Chennai-Kolkata National Highway-5 right from the morning when lakhs of people started trickling in for the rally from all parts of the state. In fact, the flow of people was such that traffic came to a total block between Guntur and Narsaraopet on one side and beyond Vijayawada on the other. Police stopped the vehicles carrying the TDP workers from proceeding towards the rally venue as the roads were already choked. An estimated two lakh people thus missed out an opportunity to take part in the rally, organised mainly for the Telugu film heroes of the Nandamuri clan to make a formal political entry. Chandrababu Naidu flew down in a special aircraft to Gannavaram airport from Hyderabad and from there he took a chopper to reach the Acharya Nagarjuna University. He was accompanied by his brothers-in-law Nandamuri Harikrishna, Balakrishna and nephew Kalyan Ram. Meanwhile, Kalyan Ram and Telugu film writer Paruchuri Gopala Krishna flew in a helicopter from Gannavaram. In all, the party pressed in three helicopters into service to shower flower petals on the massive crowd that attended the rally. The TDP politburo too met informally at the university guest house prior to the start of the rally and finalised the youth policy that was announced at the rally. Source :Hindu
TDP Yuvagarjana is a superhit Guntur Nandamuri Yuvagarjana is superhit... Nandamuri Balakrishna, Harikrishna, Kalyanram, Tarakaratna and Chandrababu naidu attended in Yuvagarjana....Balayya speech got tremendous response from his and TDP fans..
Otherside yesterday...
The Telugu Desam's "Yuva Garjana" meeting seems to have made youngsters out of many of the party's ageing leaders. Not content with telling people that they are young at heart, they are dyeing their hair thick black to appear young. Even those who haven't dyed their hair are hell bent on dominating the meet. This may give people memories of old days when aged actors such as N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao wore wigs to play the role of young heroes. Though the Yuva Garjana meeting being held on Wednesday is meant to lure the youth away from Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam, it is grey haired men who are running the show, leaving no space for youngsters.
Teach corrupt Cong a fitting lesson, Balakrishna tells youth
Telugu film star 'Yuva ratna' Nandamuri Balakrishna on Wednesday spit venom on the ruling Congress government in Andhra Pradesh and said its days were clearly numbered. "Teach the corrupt and inept Congress a fitting lesson and vote the TDP back to power," Balakrishna appealed to the youth at the 'Yuva Garjana' rally organised by the TDP here on Wednesday. "They (Congress) claim to be Gandhians but are following goondagiri. They boast of being a farmer-friendly government but more than 5,600 farmers committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh. Farmers have been reduced to such a sorry state where they have to raid godowns even for a bag of a fertiliser," Balakrishna regretted. Pointing out that rice was sold at Rs 14 a kg when the state witnessed continuous drought during the TDP regime, Balakrishna said, it was now being sold at Rs 30 despite bountiful rains. "The reservoirs were empty then but the state had uninterrupted power supply. The reservoirs are overflowing now but the state is reeling under acute power shortage. Scores of jobs were created in the Information Technology sector when TDP was at the helm while the professionals are facing retrenchment under the Congress," he said. The TDP leader said the Congress government had forcibly taken away thousands of acres of land from hapless farmers and handed it on a platter to the rich and the mighty. "It has broken the back of the farmers in the name of SEZs," he said. He was also highly critical of the widespread corruption in the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government and wanted the youth to fight to finish it. "You can root out corruption just by the looks. Such is your power," he said. Expressing anguish over the deteriorated law and order situation in the state, the actor noted that wherever a bomb blast occurs in the country, its links were being traced to Hyderabad. "What happened to democracy? Are the people safe under such a dispensation," he questioned angrily. His father and TDP founder-president N T Rama Rao gave property rights to women and empowered them by all means but in the last four-and-a-half years the state has been witnessing rapes and murders in women hostels, Balakrishna said. "Is there a government in Andhra Pradesh," he wondered. There was not a single instance of communal strife as long as the TDP was in power but the state has now been witnessing utter lawlessness, he lamented. The youth can think and act fast, Balakrishna noted, and exhorted them to rid the state of the Congress' misrule.
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