Never seen a leader as crooked as Naidu: KCR

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The TRS chief came down on TDP leaders as a committee recommended cancellation of Polavaram tenders to the government...

HYDERABAD: With the highpowered committee recommending to the government cancellation of the Polavaram irrigation project tenders, Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhara Rao on Thursday came down heavily on Telugu Desam leaders describing them as "dogs" which "barked incessantly" at him that he had a stake in the project contract.
Addressing a news conference at Telangana Bhavan here on Thursday, he said: "What would the Telugu Desam dogs have to say now? They should hang their heads in shame now that tenders have been cancelled."When the TDP had made the allegation against him that he had interest in the contract that was awarded to SEWPatelAMR consortium, Rao said, he immediately demanded that the contract be cancelled forthwith. "I wrote to the chief minister asking him to cancel the tender. It is cancelled now. What have TDP leaders to say now?" he asked.

The Polavaram works related to spillway, head works, earth and rock fill dam and excavation for power house, all worth `4,717 crore. The tenders were called in October 2011 and seven companies participated in it. The technical committee shortlisted four firms and declared that the SEW consortium qualified in the technical bid.

The TRS chief said his party was always opposed to the Polavaram project and it was he who had supplied data to the Odisha and Chhattisgarh governments and encouraged them to raise the project as an interstate dispute because his party, as matter a policy, did not want the project to materialise. "I ask TDP Telangana leaders to spell out their stand on the Polavaram project. Your leader had said he was for Polavaram and I would like to know whether you support your leader and allow submergence of Telangana villages or would stand by the people and find fault with your leader," he said.

"I had a survey done. I had nearly 5,000 samples of opinion collected and analysed. Naidu's party will not be getting more than 7 per cent vote," he said and wondered what kind of a leader Naidu was when he took the protection of nearly 5,000 policemen during his Warangal visit.