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TDP Supremo Chandrababu Naidu is worried man as five of his MLAs had defied the party’s diktat of abstaining from the Presidential poll and participated in the voting. It is learnt that all the five defiant MLAs had voted for the UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee, whom the party opposed vehemently.

Though it is not a surprise that these – MLAs Kodali Nani, Bala Nagi Reddy, Hariswar Reddy, Samudrala Venugopalachary and Chinnam Rama Kotaiah have been distancing themselves since quite some time, Naidu had not expected this brazen defiance of his authority. He is now worried on knowing that four of these MLAs were planning to join the YSR Congress, while Chinnam Rama Kotaiah, the fifth has planned to join the Congress.

Chinnam has initially tried to join the YSR Congress party. However, when the party could not assure him the Nuzvid seat from where he won in 2009 as TDP candidate, he has decided to join the Congress, after getting assured of the ticket. He has earlier declared to the shock of Naidu that he would not contest from Nuzvid as TDP candidate even if the ticket was offered to him, as there was no chance of winning. Bala Nagi Reddy has been critical of the TDP leadership and the party has already asked the speaker to take action on him.

Bala Nagi Reddy has been maintaining close relations with the YSR Congress party. Hariswar Reddy and Venugopalachary have been sailing with Telangana Nagara Samiti leader Nagam Janardana Reddy, protesting against the attitude of Naidu on the Telangana issue. However TDP leadership has not so far taken any firm decision to discipline these two. Now that they have openly defied Naidu’s authority, it has become imperative for him take some firm action to curtail indiscipline spreading to other ranks of the party. Though the party could not issue any whip with regard to the presidential poll as it was apolitical and could not hence take disciplinary action on that count, it may take action on some other count at the earliest say sources.

Legislature Secretary and Returning Officer of Presidential Election Raja Sadaram has said that arrangements have been completed for polling in the committee hall number 1. He said that MLAs could cast their votes from 10 am to 5 pm. Apart from the State MLAs, four MPs have also obtained permission to vote in Hyderabad. They are the Congress Rajya Sabha Member N. Janardhan Reddy, TDP MP Narayana Rao and YSR Congress MPs Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy. The Congress party’s 155 MLAs, 31 Lok Sabha and 13 Rajya Sabha members will vote for UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee. However, two MLAs of Congress and one MLA from TDP, who have recently resigned to their parties, are likely to vote as per their conscience. MIM, CPM and Lok Satta numbering nine have declared support to UPAs candidate Pranab Mukherjee.

The YSR Congress with 17 MLAs and two Lok Sabha members also declared support to Pranab Mukherjee. BJP with three MLAs will vote for the NDA candidate P.A. Sangma. The main opposition TDP, which has six Lok Sabha and five Rajya Sabha members apart from 86 MLAs, have decided to abstain from the polling. TRS with two Lok Sabha members and 17 MLAs is also likely to abstain. The CPI has already decided to abstain from the election at the national level. Different political parties are making arrangements to ensure polling by three MLAs, who are indisposed.

The Supreme Court has on Wednesday admitted the petition filed by the YSR Congress party’s honorary president Y S Vijayamma, challenging the dismissal of her petition by the AP high court on the assets of the TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and some others.

The Apex Court has posted the petition of Vijayamma to July 23 for hearing.Challenging the high court’s decision of dismissing her petition, Vijayamma has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, in which she has asked for investigation into the assets of Chandrababu and 16 others.

It may be recalled that the high court had earlier ordered for investigation by the CBI, ED and other agencies into the assets of all those named by Vijayamma including Chandrababu Naidu. However some of the respondents have gone to the Supreme Court and challenged the investigation on the grounds that it was against principles of natural justice that investigation was ordered without giving them notices. The Supreme Court has directed them to go back to the High Court and seek justice there itself.

Following this direction, these respondents have filed petitions in the high court, challenging the investigation. However, after examining these petitions, the High Court has said there was no Public Interest in the case and dismissed Vijayamma’s petition.

Vijayamma has challenged the decision of the High Court in the Supreme Court. Vijayamma has also named Eenadu group chairman Ramoji Rao and some other TDP leaders in her petition. She has contended that persons like Sujana Choudary and CM Ramesh have benefited during the TDP regime and the then government had indulged in misuse of power to benefit them to do favours to them.