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pomp right at the top, paid for by the starving tax-payers.The former Andhra State was predominantly agricultural. We had no industries, Sir, worth speaking of, and consequently, we had no cities. Hyderabad supplied the great necessity of the former Andhra Province- Our Ministers came here and they found that Hyderabad was a very nice place to fatten themselves and their dependents and friends on the industrial potential here. Now, unlike the former Andhra Province, the former Telangana was industrialised.The Congress Government %u2026. seems to have developed a fancy for Marwari capitalists in this country. The special favourite, I think, is the Birla group. They have enlisted the help of the Birla group in managing a number of their industries here. Now, I would like to know whether the help of the Birlas was enlisted because the Government finds itself incompetent to run the industries, and what exactly are the terms of agreement between the Government, the nominal managing agents, and the Birla Group. I would like the details to be laid on the Table of the House immediately.All these questions are rather serious when it comes to the modern State and the Ministers want to help in the industrialization. But I do not see they are doing anything about it. They seem to encourage and bolster Birlas and lesser Birlas and seem to be unable to manage without them altogether.The Praja Socialist Party was born on December 28, 1955 at Hyderabad. Important leaders like Gautham Rao, Badrivishal Pitti, Chakradhar, PVG Raju and Ratnam joined the new party. With the merger of the Telangana region and Andhra to form the enlarged Andhra Pradesh in 1956, the Hyderabad and Andhra units were merged into a single party and PVG Raju became the leader of the Legislative Party. He suggested that a party office be opened at Madras as there was no office of any all-India party in the south at that time. He offered to donate the palatial house in Nungambakkam to the 116