Amaravati: The Guntur Telugu Desam office will become the main office of the party in AP. TD national secretary N. Lokesh visited the TD office in Guntur on Thursday and inspected the facilities in the modified office. He interacted with the TD leaders about using the office as TD central office and conducting state-level meetings here. However, the TD activists, followers and students who wanted to meet the young leader were disappointed as Mr Lokesh did not come out from the office till 9 pm.
Mr Lokesh inspected all the rooms of the renovated NTR Bhavan and enquired about the available facilities with Guntur West MLA,M. Venugopal Reddy and other party leaders. He gave some suggestions about changing the direction of the meeting hall dais.
Mr Lokesh said that the Guntur TD office is now the state TD office and all important meetings of the TD would be held at Guntur. He came to NTR Bhavan at 3 pm and inspected the building till 5 pm. Later, he conducted a meeting with TD MLCs and leaders of Telugu Nadu Udpadhaya Sangham, a teachers wing of TD.
Mentioning about the hold of Communists over the teachers’ unions, Anaganwadi workers and other unions, MR Lokesh asked the TD leaders to get hold over those sections, mainly teachers. He said that the Communist parties are continuing their hold over teachers unions, but recently the teachers are turning towards the TD.
He suggested the TNUS to attract majority of the teachers into the TNUS. He further suggested the leaders to attract other sections of the society into the unions affiliated to the TD.
Mr Lokesh said that the TD government, despite having deficit Budget, gave 43 per cent fitment to government employees, including teachers and said that soon the government will start upgradation of language pundits and physical education teachers’ posts.
