Packages to allies helped Congress: TDP

HYDERABAD: The survival by the N Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the voting is temporary and TDP candidates will win all the seats whenever by-elections are held, TDP Politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu has claimed. In a press release here on Tuesday, he said the government sailed through the no-trust motion as it extended “packages” to the PRP, Lok Satta and MIM. YS Jagan had an agreement with the Congress and sent some of his MLAs into the Congress camp. All these factors helped the Congress government, he alleged and predicted that the Congress would be reduced to the status of an opposition party after the the 2014 elections.ISRAELI ENVOY MEETS NAIDU: Meanwhile, Israel’s ambassador Alon Ushpiz called on TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu at his residence here on Tuesday.