Rajahmundry, Feb 10: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu kick-started the party's poll campaign for the coming Lok Sabha and assembly elections with a flag festival and a four-km cycle yatra. Naidu, after offering prayers at a local Vinayaka temple, launched the campaign by hoisting the party flag near the Arts College Road. During his two-and-a-half-hour stay here, Naidu pedalled a cycle, the party's symbol, from Arts College to Pushkarghat, addressing gatherings and hoisting party flags en route. The city had turned yellow, with party flags and banners being put up all through the route of the campaign. The Chief Minister was greeted by women and children, waiting in front of their houses. They raised slogans hailing his leadership. Later, addressing a gathering at Pushkarghat, where the rally ended, Naidu said the four-km ride had not worn him out. On the contrary, the enthusiasm of the women, children and 'Telugu brothers' had energised him. It had given him the assurance that the TDP would return to power with a ''historic majority'', he added. Explaining the significance of starting the campaign from this place, he said it was here that Nannayya had composed Mahabharata in Telugu, V V Veeresalingam had started many agitations and late N T Rama Rao had started his campaigns in 1982 and 1994. The Chief Minister claimed that the TDP had fulfilled all its promises. Charging the Congress with neglecting the people in the state, Naidu said the TDP had initiated many programmes to uplift SC/STs and minorities, besides schemes like DWCRA and DWCUA to empower women and the CMEY programme for the youth. He said the state had 400,000 sanghs with a Rs 2,000 crore revolving fund. Thirty lakh people had been brought above poverty line by spending Rs 2,700 crore and 3.27 lakh job openings had been created in various industries and tourism and agriculture sectors. Recalling that his party had won 20 seats from the district in the last assembly elections, he hoped that this time around, the party would win all the 21 seats. Bureau Report