Telugu Desam manifesto promises food and health security

October 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party combine released its manifesto for the October 13 assembly polls in Maharashtra on Friday. Releasing the manifesto, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said: "The manifesto promises to make Mumbai an international financial capital in five years.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The United Progressive Alliance Government earned appreciation of the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over the Government's draft of a Right to Food (Guarantee of Safety and Security) Bill. Speaking during a panel discussion in the national capital on Saturday, Amartya Sen called the Government's initiative being "a step in the right direction".

May 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.

April 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi Monday promised that if voted to power it would order judicial probe into all cases of corruption reported during the last 15 years of the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) rules. The PRP's election manifesto said the party will conduct a probe by a sitting judge of the high court into corruption in construction of irrigation projects by the Congress government.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee Sunday did not rule out the possibility of the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) forming the next government with the Left parties' support and said 'everything is possible'. 'I am not an astrologer, I cannot predict what is going to happen.

April 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Thursday released its election manifesto promising free colour televisions to the poor and cash doles of Rs.1,000 to Rs.2,000 per month for poor and middle-class families if the party is voted to power. Releasing the 64-page manifesto at the party headquarters NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP chief N.

March 25th, 2009 The Congress manifesto, released Tuesday, has many promises: *25 kg wheat or rice for Rs.3 a month *Maximum possible security to each and every citizen *Highest level of defence preparedness and also take further steps for the welfare of the defence forces and their families *Acceleration in the process of police reforms *To take the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme forward *Enactment of a National Food Security Act *Health security for all *Comprehensive social security to those at special risk *Implementation of a nation-wide skill development programme *Expand schemes for improving well-being of farmers and their families *Democratised and professionalised functioning of cooperatives *Greater impetus to the empowerment of weaker sections of society. *Elected panchayat institutions to be made financially strong *Connect all villages to a broadband network in three years time *Give special focus to the small entrepreneur and to small and medium enterprises *Maintain the path of high growth with fiscal prudence and low inflation *Introduce the goods and services tax from April 1, 2010.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday promised it would enact a law to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat a month at Rs.3 per kg to families living below the poverty line (BPL) and expand schemes to improve the well being of farmers and their families. The Congress manifesto, released here by party president Sonia Gandhi, said: 'The Indian National Congress pledges that every family living below the poverty line either in rural or urban areas will be entitled, by law, to 25 kg of rice or wheat per month at Rs.3 per kg.' The manifesto also promises that subsidised community kitchens will be set up in all cities for homeless people and migrants with the support of the central government.

March 22nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Saturday exuded confidence that the Congress would retain power in the state as it had fulfilled all its promises on implementing welfare and development programmes in the last five years.

March 22nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Saturday expressed his confidence that Congress would win the coming elections in the state. Addressing a press conference at the Congress Legislature Party office in Hyderabad, Reddy said, "There is absolutely no anti-incumbency against our government because we have taken up unprecedented development.

March 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Bhartiya Janata Party manifesto for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be released today, has specific schemes for newborn girl child, welfare of farmers and senior citizens. Under BJP's "Adabidda Andalam" scheme, Rs.

March 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Bhartiya Janata Party manifesto for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be released on March 14, has specific schemes for newborn girl child, welfare of farmers and senior citizens. Under BJP's the 'Adabidda Andalam' scheme, Rs.

March 5th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) will promise rehabilitation of 'Gulf victims', migrant workers in Gulf countries who have returned after losing jobs in the current meltdown. The rehabilitation of 1.5 million migrant workers from Telangana will be the second major promise in the election manifesto of the sub-regional party which is fighting for separate statehood to the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh, for next month's polls.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Parliamentarians belonging to Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Left Front Friday staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha in protest against the speaker's decision not to allow a discussion on the Satyam Computer Services scandal. Demanding a discussion under rule 193, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders Basudeb Acharya and P.

January 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Telugu superstar-turned-politician Chiranjeevi has held a meeting with several Muslim political and religious leaders and promised to address the problems of the community. Muslim United Front (MUF) convenor Syed Vicaruddin, who hosted a dinner for the Praja Rajyam party president here Friday night, submitted a memorandum, listing the demands for socio-economic uplift of the community.