Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu ended his marathon walk (padayatra) across the State here on Saturday night at a public meeting, promising to the public that he would set the State back on rails, if voted to power in 2014.
He began his padayatra on October 2, 2012, and he covered 16 districts. He made a number of promises, the chief of which was waiver of farm loans.
“My first signature will be on the file waiving farm loans and the second one will be for closure of belt shops (unauthorised liquor shops), if you bless me and my party with victory next year,” he told the public.
He also promised that he would cancel the bauxite mining leases granted by the Congress Government in the district.
He accused the ruling Congress of pushing the State to the brink of ruin during the past nine years and the YSR Congress of plundering the State.
“The ruling Congress and the fledgeling YSR Congress are in collusion and the public will see through the game,” he said. He also castigated the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
“It was the Telugu Desam Party which first raised the demand for a steel plant at Bayyaram in Telangana region. The TRS was in deep slumber then and is now raising a hue and cry over the allotment of the iron ore mines to the RINL,” he said.