Panchayat Raj Minister K. Jana Reddy said that despite facing
financial crunch, the government has been implementing several
welfare schemes for the benefit of the poor.  Mr. Jana Reddy,
while taking part in several official programmes in Nizamabad,
Armoor and Balkonda Assembly constituencies on Friday, said that
the government was striving to ensure people’s well being by
implementing schemes like ‘Amma Hastam’, Bangaru Talli’,
‘Indiramma Kalalu’ etc.  Meanwhile, a high drama prevailed for a
few minutes at Dhoosgam village in Dichpally mandal when the TDP
leaders objected to converting an official programme into a
public meeting. TDP MLA Venkateswar Rao and MLCs V.G. Goud and
Narsa Reddy picked up an argument with the Ministers and the
Congress leaders questioning the morality of conducting party
meeting in the presence of the officials.  At one stage, the
situation seemed to be going out of control with the Congress
and TDP cadres coming close to exchanging blows. But, the
activists of both the parties were