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Lokesh to start from grassroots
Telugu Desam Party, which got caught in a cleft stick over the Telangana issue, is coming to terms over it. It is slowly realising where its strength lies, but at the same time is not in a hurry to give up in capitalising its support in the Telangana region.
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party, which got caught in a cleft stick over the Telangana issue, is coming to terms over it. It is slowly realising where its strength lies, but at the same time is not in a hurry to give up in capitalising its support in the Telangana region.
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TDP, which strove to power on the united AP stand, is finding it difficult in the newly-carved out state with YSRCP placing a hurdle at every step. Intermittently, facing pointed barbs from the star campaigner Pawan Kalyan over the land acquisition for the capital region.
With the mist over the special status being amply cleared by the Centre on Tuesday, the TDP is now working on a blue print to resurrect the party in a phased manner to strengthen its base in the Seemandhra region and enthuse cadre in Telangana. In a candid chat with The Hans India, Nara Lokesh, coordinator of Telugu Desam Party Workers' Welfare Fund and son of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, spoke on what lay ahead for the party in making Andhra Pradesh a destination for investors.
It is important to fulfill the promises made to the electorate. One way to gain people’s confidence is to develop the capital region for the new state. “We have a leader of opposition who once in a while wakes up and sits on dharna,” said Lokesh referring to YSRCP’s chief Jaganmohan Reddy.
While it was facing threat from the opposition in the Seemandhra region, it was from the ruling party TRS in the Telangana region. The TDP had to suffer from the poaching-spree by the TRS leadership. Many of the leaders who grew in the TDP were lured by the TRS with key posts, he said.
Besides, there was internal bickering among top Telangana TDP leaders. The cash-for-vote episode has dented the party to a great extent. “But 15 months down the lane, we are in the process of regaining our lost glory,” the young TDP leader said. “The biggest achievement in Telangana during the last 15 months was to ensure that the cadre remained loyal to them.
The party is also in the process of developing young leadership in both the states,” he said.TDP, he said, is in the process of forming 30,000 committees from village to district level in Telangana and about 40,000 committees in Andhra Pradesh. “As far as AP is concerned most of the committees have been formed and training of the members would begin from September.
In Telangana, the training process would begin from December. The interesting part is that about 60 per cent of the members are in the age group of 35-45,” Lokesh said.
By:V Ramu Sarma
