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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Wednesday equated AICC president Sonia Gandhi with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, who presided over the destinies of former Soviet Union and China respectively.
Reddy was reacting to criticism levelled by TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu that calendars printed by the state government did not have the photograph of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but carried pictures of Sonia Gandhi.
The chief minister said Sonia Gandhi was chairperson of the UPA and the National Advisory Committee and maintained China and Soviet Russia always carried pictures of Mao and Khrushchev while finding nothing wrong in carrying the pictures of the AICC president.
Replying to a question on cancelling his Austrian trip, Reddy said he wanted to stay back as issues like Almatti needed to be tackled and added that if Austria insisted, the major irrigation minister would be sent. He sought to dismiss the rumours that he dropped the foreign visit in view of an impending expansion of the state cabinet.
Brushing aside criticism that the
government was according administrative sanction to many irrigation projects
without a tie up of funds, the chief minister said Rs 4,800 crore were
allocated in the budget for the irrigation sector and the government would
be able to mobilise another Rs 1,000- 2,000 crore without much difficulty.
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