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Within a month of facing a debacle in the general elections, the Telugu Desam Party is feeling the heat from within. While it was only a couple of days ago that former Chief Whip and senior leader Gadde Babu Rao resigned from the TDP, stating that there was no point in continuing in the party which had lost people’s support, it was the turn of former minister and TDP senior MLA from Kovur constituency in Nellore district Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy to raise the banner of revolt against party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
In an open letter to Naidu, Prasanna Kumar Reddy criticised the stand taken by the party leadership in opposing Congress nominee N Kiran Kumar Reddy as the Speaker of the Assembly. The party’s image had taken a severe beating with such wrong decisions, he said.
“You should have consulted senior leaders of the party before taking decisions on such important issues. But, you are surrounded by a bunch of buffoons and thotti gang. It is unfortunate that you always go by their advice and take wrong steps,” Prasanna Kumar said in the letter. He pointed out that if the TDP could get a good number of seats in the recent elections, the credit would go to Jr NTR and Nandamuri Balakrishna, grandson and son of former Chief Minister N T Rama Rao respectively, who campaigned extensively for the party
The Legislative Council premises has witnessed a rare scene on Tuesday. Mahila Congress president Ganga Bhavani and Telugu Desam Party official spokesperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari, both known arch rivals in the Legislative Council, displayed their “sisterly” affection towards each other, of couse, all in the presence of media.
The initiative, however, was taken by Ganga Bhavani. She brought sweets to the council on the first day and was distributing them to all the party leaders. There, she came across Nannapaneni. Noticing the presence of electronic media there, Ganga called “akka” and came to her. She pulled Nannapaneni before cameras and offered a sweet to her mouth.
A smiling Nannapaneni was forced to offer sweet to Ganga Bhavani, too. Both posed for photographs for some time, even as other leaders were laughing to their heart content.
Hope at least now, Ganga and Nannapaneni exchange sweet words, rather than “pachchi boothulu.”
Jubilee Hills MLA P Vishnuvardhan Reddy is attracting everybody in the assembly lobbies by wearing short-length shirts and jeans trousers.
Asked why he has preferred to wear such a dress, rather than khadi clothes in the assembly, Vishnu said he was simply following the Rahul Gandhi formula. “Our leader, Rahul, has advised the young politicians to wear young dresses, so as to appeal to voters. If we go with khaddar attire, they may not come forward to tell their problems. We have to identify ourselves with the younger generation,” he said.
