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NAIDU TAKES GROUSE TO ATAL 

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FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Published 21.12.00, 12:00 AM
New Delhi, Dec. 21 :    New Delhi, Dec. 21:  At the behest of his boss Chandrababu Naidu, Telugu Desam leader in the Lok Sabha Yerran Naidu today called on the Prime Minister to convey the party's displeasure over his remark that the allies were 'crossing the limits'. Desam sources said Yerran told Atal Behari Vajpayee that his party could not defend itself since the Prime Minister had criticised the conduct of his allies at the BJP parliamentary party meeting. At the meeting on Tuesday, Vajpayee had urged the NDA partners to exercise 'restraint', have a 'national perspective' and not to cross the 'limit' while criticising the government's policies in Parliament. Yerran produced clippings of newspaper reports quoting the Prime Minister criticising the allies. He is learnt to have told Vajpayee that though the Desam has no intention of embarrassing his government, he should also understand their political compulsions. Asked whether he protested against Vajpayee's remark, the Desam MP merely said: 'We conveyed our feelings to the Prime Minister.' He added that he met the Prime Minister often to discuss various issues and 'we have sorted out the problems'. The Desam, however, continued to speak out against the Vajpayee administration and warned the government against deviating from the national agenda for governance. He asserted that his party would not allow the secular agenda to be side-tracked. 'We (TDP) are committed to secularism and the common agenda of NDA and will not allow it to be side-tracked,' the Andhra Pradesh chief minister said in Vijayawada. Referring to his government's standoff with the Centre on the farmers' issue, Naidu said the Desam will not sacrifice the interests of the state. 'We will continue the fight within and outside Parliament to see that farmers' interests are protected,' he said. Asked whether he was satisfied with the Centre's response to the state's demands on enhancement of paddy and rice procurement, the chief minister said he had not come here to talk about politics.    
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