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BT batch makes waves in TRS
With two days left for filing of nominations for the MLC elections under MLA quota, all political parties are making all-out efforts to assess their strengths and weaknesses. The TRS, TDP and the Congress are likely to announce the names of the candidates on Wednesday evening.
Pink party to field all defectors in MLC polls
Hyderabad: With two days left for filing of nominations for the MLC elections under MLA quota, all political parties are making all-out efforts to assess their strengths and weaknesses. The TRS, TDP and the Congress are likely to announce the names of the candidates on Wednesday evening.
Lobbying is more intense in the TRS since it would be sending four of its members to the Legislative Council while the Congress and the TDP will get one each. According to TRS insiders, the party in all probability will not contest the fifth seat but would accommodate all the four who ‘defected’ from other parties to the TRS after the government was formed. All the TRS candidates for the MLC elections likely to be ‘BT’(Bangaru Telangana) batch, party leaders feel.
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The BT batch includes Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari, Tummala Nageshwara Rao, Bodakunti Venkateswarlu (TDP) and Neti Vidyasagar of the Congress. Sources said that while three names barring Venkateswarlu are more or less finalised, the party leadership is yet to take a final decision in regard to Venkateswarlu. The possibility of bringing him to the Council under local body MLA quota is also not ruled out.
But another section of leaders say that since Venkateswarlu was among those who joined the TRS facilitating the merger of the TDP in TRS in the Council, he will be given the MLC ticket. The TRS has obligation to accommodate Neti Vidyasagar since he was the vice chairman of the Council and cooperated in the election of Swami Goud of the TRS as chairman of the Council. He was also part of the BT batch and hence the party would reward him with the MLC seat again, sources said.
The TDP, which has been facing uphill task in keeping its flock together in Telangana, is said to be considering the name of A Narsa Reddy. Sources say party president N Chandrababu Naidu has given an assurance on this. But those who want to subvert the chances of Narsa Reddy have been alleging that Narsa Reddy was lobbying with the TRS and had in fact got an assurance that if TDP announces his name, the pink party would not field its candidate for the 5th seat.
The quid pro quo understanding is that after the elections, Narsa Reddy would switch over to the TRS. Those who are opposed to Narsa Reddy have informed Naidu about this possibility. It now remains to be seen how Naidu would react. Among other front runners in the TDP for the post are Vem Narender and Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy. Interestingly, Chandrababu Naidu is said to have told the BJP leadership that he would accommodate one BJP candidate in the elections for MLCs under the MLA quota in Andhra Pradesh.
