Palakurthy MLA Errabelli Dayakar Rao, who had defected from Telugu Desam Party to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, has shot back at his critics about his letter to the Speaker seeking merger of majority of the TDP MLAs with the TRS.
Dayakar told media that what the 12 TDP MLAs had done was no different from what TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu had done in August 1995 when he dethroned then Chief Minister N T Rama Rao.
“What we did was not worse than what Naidu had done in 1995. Those days, Naidu had given a similar letter to then Speaker Yanamala Ramakrishnudu stating that majority of the MLAs were with him and hence, his group should be treated as real Telugu Desam Legislature Party.
We have also done the same. Since 12 out of the 15 MLAs have supported the TRS, we gave a letter to the Speaker seeking to consider as real TDLP which has merged with the TRS. The Speaker accepted our request and declared as associated members of the TRS,” Errabelli said.
The defected MLA said he had joined the TRS without any preconditions.
“If Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao takes me into the Cabinet, I will welcome it. In fact, I have the highest popularity in Telangana, next to KCR,” he claimed.
