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Telangana TDP in for a major jolt
Mass exodus of leaders from the opposition TDP to the ruling TRS seems imminent in Telangana State soon. Several leaders from state, district and mandal level party committees, including senior most leaders may join the TRS soon as the ruling party resumed efforts to lure the opposition party leaders under ‘Operation Akarash’, launched by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao after assuming office in
Top TRS leaders on hectic poaching
Hyderabad: Mass exodus of leaders from the opposition TDP to the ruling TRS seems imminent in Telangana State soon.
Several leaders from state, district and mandal level party committees, including senior most leaders may join the TRS soon as the ruling party resumed efforts to lure the opposition party leaders under ‘Operation Akarash’, launched by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao after assuming office in 2014.
Highly-placed sources said that several Telugu Desam senior leaders, barring TDP working president A Revanth Reddy, have been contacted by TRS high command and held several rounds of talks on their joining.
KCR mainly targeted the leaders who still maintained stronghold among people in the erstwhile Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts. They have already shown interest to switch loyalties to TRS.
The ruling party is also busy convincing the TDP leaders in the old Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy and Mahbubnagar districts. Interestingly, most of the TDP leaders were KCR contemporaries during the TDP rule in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.
Most of the senior leaders were offered tickets to contest in their respective Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in 2019 general election. Some of them are promised with big posts in the party before the election and plum posts in the government after forming government for second consecutive term.
Sources said that KCR entrusted two senior-most leaders, who joined KCR’s bandwagon from a strong political party in Telnagana, to hold talks with the leaders and enter political agreements with them.
A senior-most leader on condition of anonymity said that “KCR wanted to merge the entire TDP Telangana unit with TRS like the TDP legislative party has been merged with TRS legislative party after 12 MLAs of the yellow party joined the ruling party officially.”
After the defections, only three legislators - Revanth, S Venkata Veeraiah and R Krishanaih -- were left in TDP in Telangana. The ruling party is planning to take up the joining of TDP leaders in a big way from November this year.
