Naidu backstabs Kootami partners!

Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu, at last, managed to keep the flock in Mahakootami together. Using all his wily tactics, he forced the alliance partners to agree for the number of seats he had allocated for the TRS, CPI and CPI-M. The partners got panicky, when the TD candidates filed their nominations in most of the constituencies allotted to the alliance partners with official B-forms. As a result, they came down to their knees and agreed for the seats allotted to them. And Naidu told them that no B forms were given to anyone, and even if they were given to some, they would be withdrawn.

So, the TDP would be contesting in 221 assembly and 29 Lok Sabha seats; TRS in 45-09 seats, CPI and CPI-M in 14-09 seats each. Sakshi daily, supporting the Congress party, was hoping that the Mahakootami would crumble and split; but it did not happen. So, it attacked Chandrababu Naidu directly, saying he had backstabbed even his friends by asking his party leaders to file nominations in the alliance seats, thereby blackmailing them. It said Naidu’s “jadoo” (Magic) made the alliance partners succumb.

On the other hand, Andhra Jyothy and Eenadu gave positive stories, saying that the Mahakootami finally materialised with alliance coming to an understanding on seat sharing. Eenadu also gave how rebels are troubling all political parties by filing their nominations as independents. Maximum number of rebels in TDP and PRP filed their papers on the last day of nominations in the first phase. While Andhra Jyothy gave a lot of prominence to Chiranjeevi’s road show in East Godavari in which he attacked the Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Sakshi carried the road show of YSR at Maheshwaram, in which he came down heavily on Mahakootami, where parties are fighting for selling of tickets.

The allotment of symbols to PRP and Lok Satta by the EC is the only other interesting news in the dailies on Tuesday.