The tremendous success of the Seemandhra settlers’ meeting held at Kukatpalli on Saturday in support of Telangana Rashtra Samithi has sent panic waves among the Telugu Desam Party leaders and cadres.
Though YSRC has announced that it would stay away from contesting the assembly elections in Telangana, it has taken a plunge into action to discreetly help the TRS in attracting Seemandhra voters belonging settled large numbers in the Greater Hyderabad limits.
In fact, sources say it was the YSRC leaders who had taken the initiative for the meeting of Seemandhra settlers at Kukatpalli, which was attended by TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son and IT minister K T Rama Rao.
The YSRC cadre in the name of Jaganna Sainkulu circulated the message through WhatsApp groups asking one another to mobilise the Seemandhras settlers to the meeting.
The message also pointed out that the TRS victory would help Jagan come to power in Andhra Pradesh in the next assembly elections there.
“So, we all have to come together and bury the Maha Kootami,” the message said.
And at the meeting, several YSRC leaders openly expressed their support to TRS and asked the people to defeat the TDP-Congress combine. They raised Jai Jagan slogans also at the meeting.
Following the meeting, the TDP leaders got alerted. Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with the party leaders to work out a counter-strategy.
While Naidu himself has decided to launch a campaign in Kukatpalli, he has also reportedly sent request messages to Junior NTR and Kalyanram to campaign for their sister Nandamuri Suhasini, the party candidate in Kukatpalli. She also reportedly requested her brothers to bail her out.
If everything works out, Junior NTR may dedicate some time for a couple of road shows in Kukatpalli to help Suhasini.
At the same time, Harikrishna’s brother and TDP MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna will also campaign for Suhasini, sources said.