After facing humiliating defeat at the hands of YSRCP in the recent Assembly polls, former AP CM and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to shed 'kamma party' image associated with TDP.
This is because the post-mortem on election results being conducted by Naidu in all the review meetings has been revealing that voters opposed TDP because it is a 'kamma party' and worked only for the benefit of 'kamma people' during the last five years of its rule in AP.
Party leaders and cadre are bringing to the notice of Naidu that because of 'kamma party' image, TDP lost polls as all other castes in AP supported YSRCP.
They told Naidu that 'kamma image' has damaged the prospects of TDP. With this, Naidu is now trying to shed 'kamma image' of TDP. Naidu is now claiming that TDP is not at all a 'kamma party'.
He said if TDP is a 'kamma party' he would have lost Kuppam seat also.
Naidu said out of 2 lakh voters in Kuppam, only 1,000 votes are from Kamma caste, to which Naidu belongs.
He said he won from Kuppam for the seventh consecutive term because all non-Kamma castes supported him.
Kuppam proves that TDP is not a 'kamma party' and all TDP leaders and cadre should highlight this example in their constituencies to shed TDP's image of a 'kamma party', Naidu said.
