Reverse migration causes disquiet in TD

VV Balakrishna
First Published : 03 May 2010 04:11:00 AM IST
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HYDERABAD: Though a large number of leaders from other parties are joining the Telugu Desam, the fear among the party leaders is ``Will this reverse migration spoil the prospects of the party in the next elections?’’ The leadership has opened the party doors to former leaders. Several leaders including T Devender Goud, Tammineni Sitaram and those PRP and TRS leaders who unsuccessfully contested the recent elections, have joined the party in the last one year.

Reverse migration of old guards into the party might help the TDP in the Telangana region where it is facing some problems. But the reentry of Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao, Kottapalli Subbarayaudu and others is likely to stir up a hornets’ nest in the party. For example, the re-entry of Kala Venkata Rao is not very palatable to senior leader K Yerran Naidu. Naidu is equally unhappy at the return of Sitaram.

Asked about his comments, Yerran Naidu said that he would abide by the party’s decision. He, however, hastened to add that Kala Venkata Rao should explain the reasons why he had left the party and why he had decided to rejoin the parent party after the elections.

Though Yerran Naidu personally dislikes the entry of some leaders, he may not suffer any political loss as he is a Lok Sabha candidate.

Problems could arise in the respective Assembly constituencies where the party appointed incharges in order to gear up the party.

``Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has already announced that the Assembly tickets in 2014 will be given to party incharges. TDP has incharges in all the Assembly constituencies in the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. How can then the party chief accommodate the leaders who are re-entering the party now?’’ wondered a senior leader.

``At present, the TDP has no incharges for almost 70 Assembly constituencies in the Telangana region.

If any leader from these constituencies in Telangana rejoins the party, then the party will stand to gain. In contrast, the fate of Assembly segment incharges in Andhra region will hang in balance if more former leaders troop back into the party,’’ said another senior leader.

``I do not what Naidu promising the leaders who are keen to rejoin the party. If he replaces the segment incharges before elections, that will create problems. If he sticks to his word and give tickets to present incharges, then those reentering the party will damage the prospects of the party,’’ worried another leader.

There will, however, be no immediate problem to the party due to the migrations. ``We are in the opposition and those who will cross over into the TDP will share the party work as we cannot offer plum political posts as in a ruling party,’’ said Yerran Naidu.