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Frustrated with Naidu, Shilpa to join YSRC

Frustrated with Naidu, Shilpa to join YSRC

The hide-and-seek game between the Telugu Desam Party and the YSR Congress party for the forthcoming by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat seems to have come to an end finally with senior Telugu Desam Party leader Shilpa Mohan Reddy deciding to join the opposition party.

Shilpa,  who used all his pressure tactics to secure the TDP ticket for Nandyal bypolls, is said to have become frustrated with the dilly-dallying attitude of party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

While Shilpa told Naidu that he had every right to get the party ticket, because he had contested the Nandyal elections in 2014 assembly elections against Bhuma Nagi Reddy, whose death had caused the by-elections.

However, with Bhuma along with his daughter Akhila Priya joining the TDP later, Naidu is compelled to consider giving the party ticket to one of the family members of Bhuma, since sympathy factor works in that area.

And Akhila who joined the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet, has been actively campaigning in Nandyal on the ground that it was her father’s constituency.

As a result, Shilpa had no option to find his own ways of securing political future. So, he has decided to join the YSR Congress party after securing an assurance that he would be given the YSRC ticket for Nandyal. In all probability, he might join the YSRC on Wednesday.

It does mean, it would be role reversal in Nandya by polls now: Bhuma family which won the seat on YSRC ticket in 2014 will now contest on the TDP ticket.

On other hand, Shilpa who contested Nandyal elections in 2014 will now be contesting on YSRC ticket!

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