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Urban Haat confirmed as Mahanadu venue

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI May 9. The sprawling campus of the Urban Haat, the crafts village functioning on the Tirupati-Tiruchanoor road has been finally selected as the venue for the ruling TDP's three-day "Mahanadu'' scheduled to get under way here from May 27.

As the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, himself would sit through the three-day biennial sessions of the party in his capacity as its supremo, the summit assumes a lot of importance. The session also assumes significance in the context of the general elections due next year in the normal course and even earlier if the political situation warranted. With rumours about a possible early election making rounds in the political circles, the TDP top-brass is sure to make a mid-course assessment of its various contentious policies and evaluate its plus and minus points vis-a-vis the coming elections.

Though Tirupati in fact has been the launch-pad for all the important programmes of the TDP ever since its inception, it is for the first time that it is going to host the party's Mahanadu to be attended by no fewer than 6,000 party delegates from all over the State. Incidentally, Tirupati was the venue for the AICC's 79th Plenary Session held in 1992 in the post-Rajiv era under the leadership of the then party chief and Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao. And it is now the turn of the TDP to choose Tirupati as the venue for the plenum -- the supreme policy framing body of the ruling TDP. As is its custom the meet would take stock of the overall political situation in the country and finalise its policies, strategies, etc, to meet the changing scenario.

With less than three weeks to go for the start of the crucial session, the preliminaries for the party jamboree was been set in motion today with three Ministers -- Tammineni Seetaram, B. Gopalakrishna Reddy and J. Pushparaj -- visiting the SVU Stadium and the Urban Haat site and finally selecting the latter as the venue for the session as it had better ambience and other logistics like space, water supply, parking place, approach as well as diversion roads, etc.

The trio addressing a press conference after a visit to the two sites underscored the crucial nature of the Tirupati summit and claimed that the the party would win 200 seats hands-down in the coming elections despite the gloomy picture being sought to be painted by their detractors. They also taunted the Congress by saying that it was still bogged down in the controversy as to who would be its chief ministerial candidate and that was enough for the people to know its state of affairs.

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