It appears senior Telugu Desam Party legislator and former minister Gorantla Buchaiah Chowdary is unrelenting and firm on resigning from the party as decided earlier.
Senior TDP leaders deputed by party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu held hectic confabulations with Buchaiah Chowdary on the second consecutive day to pacify him, but he has not come down even a bit on his decision to quit the party.
A three-member delegation of the party comprising N Chinna Rajappa, K S Jawahar and Gadde Rammohan held lengthy discussion with him.
Even TDP state president Kinjarapu Atchannaidu also held telephonic talks with Buchaiah Chowdary and assured him that all the issues raised by the latter would be resolved to his satisfaction.
Buchaiah Chowdary is learnt to have demanded that he should be given complete authority in the selection of candidates for the ensuring elections to Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation and all his followers be given due recognition in the party.
Apparently, the senior MLA, representing Rajahmundry (rural) assembly constituency was angry with the party leadership for not considering his name for the Public Accounts Committee chairman post, but recommending the name of Payyavula Kesav for the post.
Moreover, Buchaiah Chowdary reportedly told the party delegation that neither Naidu nor Lokesh was accessible to him despite repeated calls to discuss about the hegemony of juniors in the TDP in East Godavari district unit.
“If the party continues to ignore me and doesn’t give due recognition to my followers in the Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation elections, I shall quit the party by August 25,” the former minister reportedly said in his ultimatum to the party high command.
It remains to be seen how Naidu would react to his demands.
