3 TDP activists hurt in clashes

Three  senior functionaries  of the Telugu Desam Party were seriously injured in intra-party clashes which flared up during the party's membership  drive here on Tuesday.

The trouble cropped up at a meeting organised to launch the party's membership drive when a group led by Sivarami Reddy and another  led by Kittu disputed over a petty  issue. Charges and counter-charges by either group triggered the clashes.

There has been intra-party fracas in the Kunrool District Tdp.

The party functionaries who were instructed to expedite the membership drive were also advised to accord priority to enroll the youth, women and weaker sections.

According to party sources, the Tdp would renew the existing membership and enrol new members who are interested in the party's ideology and programmes.