Nandamuri Balakrishna is a film actor cum politician. He won from Hindupur twice on behalf of TDP. He won his seat in Hindupur in spite of the huge wave of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in 2019 general elections.
He is also continuing as the TDP polit bureau member. Right now he is busy with films and only seldom appearing as a politician. Already he is bagging criticism as a non-serious politician.
But Balayya has decided on something very seriously. Visakha Urban TDP Secretary Pasarla Prasad said that Balayya is going to jump into full time politics very soon.
When probed into the details of his statement, some TDP insiders from Guntur said that Balayya understood that the TDP cannot be revived with Nara Chandrababu and Lokesh's leadership.
"Balayya also got the feelers that the entire TDP cadre is seriously looking out for the changed leadership from Nara to Nandamuri. It should be remembered that the leaders like Butchaiah Chowdary also expressed openly that Jr NTR should forward to lead the party. But Jr NTR is not showing any interest as of now. So taking this seriously, Balakrishna, as the Nandamuri successor of Sr NTR, decided to take the mantle from his viyyankudu Chandrababu Naidu. He will be the CM candidate in the 2024 elections", said some insiders.
Balakrishna, in an interview last year said that the party leadership is not going to anybody from the family of Nara-Nandamuri. Probably that could be a hint for his idea of leading the party giving some rest to Mr Naidu.
"Jr NTR cannot come into active politics as of now. His career is at its peak and his political interest is also not so clear. So Balakrishna has decided to fill the gap now. We wish TDP comes to power with Balayya as CM", said an insider from Guntur.
We have to see how these mind blowing political moves by Balakrishna turn the fate of TDP.
