For Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, the party leaders from Kadapa district have turned out to be the most thankless politicians. Whoever Naidu had sent to Rajya Sabha from Kadapa district has dumped the party and jumped into the rival parties.

It had started with N Tulasi Reddy, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha during the TDP regime, thanks to the initiative taken by Naidu. Subsequently, he shifted his loyalties to Anna TDP; and then to the Bharatiya Janata Party and finally, he landed in the Congress party, presently holding the post of 20-point formula implementation committee chairman.

So is the case with C Ramachandraiah, who was nominated to Rajya Sabha twice by Naidu. But, he, too, ditched the TDP president in 2009 and joined the Praja Rajyam Party, which later got merged with the Congress. Presently, he is the minister in Kiran cabinet.

The latest example is M V Mysoora Reddy, who was given utmost respect by Naidu. Though there was not much of a use by Mysoora to the TDP, Naidu nominated him to Rajya Sabha within a couple of years of joining the TDP. But soon after his term has ended in Rajya Sabha, Mysoora defected to YSR Congress.

According to latest information from New Delhi, newly-appointed Rajya Sabha member from Kadapa C M Ramesh, too, has been staying away from the TDP activities in Delhi and has been hobnobbing with powerful Congress leaders in New Delhi.

“The time is not far off when Ramesh jumps into the Congress,” a party leader observed.