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| Congress members of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh were today summoned to Delhi, cutting short their bus yatra in Andhra Pradesh amid speculation about snap polls in the state. |
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| Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced that he was convening an emergency general body meeting of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on November 13 to chalk out strategies to put party cadre in battle-ready mode. |
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| Congress MPs will meet party president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi and will co-ordinate with party general secretary Ambika Soni to figure out how to formulate poll strategy and minimise damage cause by the Telengana movement for a separate state. |
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| In the past few days, Naidu has unveiled a number of welfare measures targeting weaker sections, farmers and local bodies. An unscheduled meeting of the Cabinet over the weekend cleared them. |
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| This was after he called similar meetings of bureaucrats, putting tough deadlines on completing programmes. Andhra Pradesh has sought and got more rice, more gas cylinders and more drought and flood alleviation funds than any other state. |
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| The gas cylinders have been used to launch a scheme for housewives called the Deepam scheme, under which a housewife can by depositing only Rs 1000, get a gas cylinder and a stove, thanks to a hefty subsidy by the state government. |
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| The Thali-bottu scheme was meant to provide gold to a maximum of 10 grams to identified poor families to provide mangalsutras for marriages of girls from poor families. |
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| All university-going girls at the district-level can now ask for free bicycles under another scheme launched for education of girls by the state government. |
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| With all this and the disarray in the Congress, as well as the sympathy caused by the attack on him by naxalites, the chief minister thought February would be the ideal time for the Assembly elections. |
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Over 6,000 partymen, including MPs, MLAs, politburo members and officer-bearers of district party units, are likely to attend the November 15 meeting, christened a
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