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Jolt to YSRCP
New Delhi: Jolt to YSRCP, Nandyal MP S P Y Reddy joined the TDP in the national capital on Sunday. Butta Renuka’s husband G Neelakantham, too, joined the TDP.
New Delhi: Less than 10 days after the TDP emerged as the clear winner in the Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh, fresh trouble seems to be brewing for YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy. In a major jolt to the party, Nandyal MP S P Y Reddy joined the TDP in the national capital on Sunday. Butta Renuka’s husband G Neelakantham, too, joined the TDP. Though it was said that Renuka would also join the party, after meeting TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, she announced that she would be an associate member of the party. She told the media that she had taken this decision to ensure that the backward district of Kurnool got proper attention and the fruits of development in the residual state. In a day of dramatic development, both SPY Reddy and Renuka came to Delhi on Sunday morning and met Naidu. Soon after joining the TDP, Reddy said that he had taken the decision to join the TDP since he wanted speedy development of Nandyal constituency.
He said he was not a professional politician and was in no mood to wait for another five years for the YSRCP to come to power. Admitting him into the party Naidu said that Reddy was a good, elderly and non-controversial leader and that he was happy to admit him into the party. Naidu, who had checked into Taj Mansingh on his arrival on Saturday evening, came to the Chief Minister’s Cottage in AP Bhavan on Sunday morning.
Reddy, it may be mentioned has been keeping away from the activities of the YSRCP and did not even attend the meeting of all the elected MLAs and MPs held recently at Idupalapaya. It was being said that Reddy was unhappy with the way YSRCP president Jaganmohan Reddy had treated him. Asked by the media here, Reddy said, "I have joined the TDP not because of any differences with the YSR Congress but for the development of my region. The BJP is ruling at the Centre and the TDP is set to be ruling Andhra Pradesh," he said. The Nandyal MP was, in fact, part of the MPs' delegation of YSR Congress which met Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and BJP President Rajnath Singh. The YSR Congress had won nine Lok Sabha seats, one of them in Telangana.
