Hyderabad, May 14 (UNI) Senior Congress leaders today underlined the need to mobilise party workers to create awareness among people about the developmental activities taken up by the state government in a proper way.

Speaking at the re-dedication programme on the occasion of the government completing three years in office, Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao, Union Minister T Subbirami Reddy and former state minister M Satyanarayana Rao felt though the government had achieved a lot in respect of development, these were not reaching the people due to communication gap.

Mr Hanumantha Rao urged the Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and PCC President K Keshava Rao to take the party workers into confidence as they were the backbone of the party. The Congress workers' and leaders' should strengthen the party and return to power in 2009 elections in the state, he added.

He said the Congress came to power in the state after a long time, as the people were vexed with the Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) anti-people and anti-farmer policies. The government and the party should give more priority to the Schedueld Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward classes, he added.

Mr Rao urged Dr Reddy to evaluate the work of the ministers in the state.

Dr Subbirami said the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked the Congress-ruled states to follow the footsteps of Andhra Pradesh in initiating welfare schemes. The state government had also taken up several irrigation projects to bring more land under cultivation, he added.

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