TDP still in fray for Warangal

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Central Committee president and AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will speak to BJP national president Amit Shah and then decide the candidate for Warangal LS bypoll.

At a meeting with TS TD leaders at his camp office in Vijayawada, Mr Naidu said that he would speak to the BJP chief in a day or two.

Earlier, the TS TD leaders briefed him over their meeting with TS BJP leaders over selection of the candidate and requested Mr Naidu to ensure a candidate from TD is fielded this time from the seat since they feel that the TD can perform better than the BJP.

In case BJP, whose candidate contested the last elections as part of alliance, insists on fielding its own candidate, the decision to leave the seat of the BJP might be taken by Mr Naidu, TS TD president L. Ramana told reporters after the meeting.

The meeting also discussed the ‘situation’ regarding party MP Gundu Sudharani, whose six-year Rajya Sabha term comes to an end by April 2016.

Meanwhile, TD politburo member and spokesperson Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy denied any major differences between party leaders Errabelli Dayakar Rao and A. Revanth Reddy

Sources said that Mr Naidu took a serious view of the leaders’ differences and warned them against airing their differences in the open.
 

Gundu Sudharani to join TRS
In a major shock to the TS TD on the eve of Warangal Lok Sabha bypoll,  Rajya Sabha member Gundu Sudharani has decided to join the TRS.

Ms Sudharani, who hails from Warangal, met Chief  Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and TRS deputy floor leader B. Vinod Kumar in New Delhi and expressed her desire to join the party before the bypoll.

“She will join the TRS in a day or two,” Mr Kumar told this newspaper.

Ms Sudharani, 51, hails from backward Padmashali community, who are sizeable in number in Warangal district.

She was TD floor leader in  Warangal corporation from 2005-2010 and elected to the Rajya Sabha later.