Motkupalli Narsimhulu announced that this would be the last time he would be contesting elections.
Addressing a large gathering at Yadagirigutta here on Thursday, the expelled Telugu Desam Party leader said he would enter the fray as an independent from Aler, and bringing Godavari waters to the constituency will be his only agenda. The public meeting called — Motkupalli Shankarava Sabha — was organised under the aegis of Godavari Jala Sadhana Samithi.
In an emotion-filled address, he talked of his last days in the TDP and corruption by Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders.
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“This will be the last elections I will contest. And getting Godavari waters to Aler constituency will be my only agenda, and that is also my election slogan,” he told the gathering and asked people of Aler constituency to vote for him.
Disappointed
“I thought TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao would use my services, but he did not. I could have played a crucial role to help TRS win from several constituencies in Nalgonda,” he said in disappointment.
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The six-time MLA, five from Aler and once from Thungathurthy, he said it was the inefficiency of ex-MLA from Aler Gongidi Sunitha, which had led to the diversion of Thapasupalli project water to Siddipet.
He urged the TRS leadership to take note of the accumulation of wealth through illegal means by the party MLAs.
Betrayal by seniors
Recollecting his golden days in the TDP, since its founding by late N. T. Rama Rao, Mr. Narsimhulu turned emotional while describing the alleged mistreatment by his erstwhile senior colleagues.
“It was TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu who promised to make me a Governor or MP, I had never asked. It was just betrayal, like he did with NTR,” he said. Mr. Narsimhulu stuck to his guns, and maintained that the sorry state of affairs of the Telugu Desam Party in Telanagana was solely because of the party’s national president Chandrababu Naidu.