TDP consulting parties on economic policy
Seeking to shed its reforms-savvy image, main Opposition in Andhra Pradesh, TDP, on Monday said it was consulting other like-minded parties, including the Left, to prepare a document on an alternative economic policy as the present reforms model h...
By PTI |
TIRUPATI: Seeking to shed its reforms-savvy image, main Opposition in Andhra Pradesh, TDP, on Monday said it was consulting other like-minded parties, including the Left, to prepare a document on an alternative economic policy as the present reforms model had only "widened" the gulf between rich and the poor.
"We want to initiate a national debate on the need to take corrective measures and look for an alternative model to ensure benefits of reforms reach the poor and help in reviving the rural economy," TDP chief and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters on the sidelines of his party's annual delegates' convention "Mahanadu" in this temple town.
As the party meeting, being attended by nearly 12,000 delegates, took up a resolution on alternative economic policy, Naidu spoke about pitfalls of reforms programme initiated in 1991 and how it had compounded the miseries of farmers, artisans and rural poor.
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