The recent revamp of the Central and State Committees of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh has left a section of cadre in Prakasam district disheartened.
The composition of the committees though was welcomed by a section of cadre for inclusion of Transport Minister Sidda Raghava Rao and MLC Magunta Srinivasulu in the TDP’s Central Committee as treasurer and national vice-president respectively; it has put another section into dismay, especially the supporters of senior leader Karnam Balaram Krishnamoorthy.
Despite the fact that Mr. Krishnamoorthy has been made party’s State vice-president, followers of the party’s hitherto farmers’ wing State president felt that their leader has been given a short shrift. It was Chief Minister and party chief Chandrababu Naidu who had inducted Mr. Krishnamoorthy, his erstwhile colleague in the State Legislative assembly in 1985, into the TDP. Mr. Krishnamoorthy should have been given a place in the party’s Central Committee or politburo, felt his supporters in Addanki who have been expecting that their leader would be made a Minister as and when the State Cabinet was expanded.
Similarly, the party cadre in the Western Prakasam were also disappointed that no leader from the Giddalur, Markapur and Yerragondapalem Assembly constituencies found a place in the TDP Central and State committees.
Non-representation of the district in the TDP politburo has caused heartburns among the leaders, who were expecting to make it to the key decision-making body. “The politburo is packed with leaders from Telangana,” rued a senior leader on the condition of anonymity. They hoped that their patience would be rewarded at the time of filing up various party-affiliated wings and the nominated posts.
Giddalur,Markapur and Yerragondapalem Assembly constituencies have no representation in TDP politburo, they say
