BJP wooing senior leaders from other parties

• Public meeting to be held at Kadapa Municipal Grounds on Jan 18
• Kandula Brothers likely to join the party

Kadapa: The BJP is playing cards close to its chest in order to strengthen its base in Kadapa district. As a part of this strategy, it is wooing senior leaders from other parties. Already, the entry of senior leaders, the Kandula Brothers, has almost been finalised. The party is also wooing other important leaders into its fold.

It is learnt that the BJP is trying to win over some Muslim leaders. In this backdrop, all eyes are on the public meeting which is scheduled for January 18 in the Kadapa Municipal Grounds.

Speculation is rife over joining of former MLA of Railwaykodur Gunti Venkateswara Prasad in BJP. It is learn that he met recently some party leaders. Prasad, who contested as a Congress candidate in 2004, had won the election.

In 1965 his father, Gunti Ramulu, too, was elected from Railwaykodur. The Gunti family earned a good name in the constituency. Notably, several leaders, who are getting offers from the TDP are keen on joining the BJP.

Though the TDP is in power, its leaders are allegedly ‘fighting’ for supremacy. Therefore, they are eying the BJP, as it is at the helm at the Centre. Those leaders who are interested in joining BJP most probably will join the party on January 18 at the public meeting. The BJP is planning to take the second rung leaders too into its fold.

The Kandula Brothers are leaving no stone unturned to make the public meeting a grand success, as Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu will attend. According to reliable sources, senior BJP leaders will announce sops at the meeting like setting up a steel plant in the district and providing 200 tmc of surplus water for drinking in Rayalaseema.