TDP in Andhra Pradesh is set for another jolt. It’s candidate for the recent Tirupati Lok Sabha bypolls is preparing to leave the party. Yes. Former MP, Minister Panabaka Lakshmi is planning to leave the Telugu Desam Party. Her husband Panabaka Krishnaiah too will follow her.

Panabaka Lakshmi, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Congresswoman was never comfortable in the TDP. She joined the TDP ahead of the 2019 elections and got an MP ticket for herself and an MLA ticket for her husband Krishnaiah. But both lost badly to the YSRCP. Since then, Panabaka’s politics were in sleep mode.

When the Tirupati bypolls came, Chandrababu Naidu had announced her candidature without even bothering to take her consent. She was unhappy about this and was mentally never in the contest. Thus, she was a reluctant candidate. Even her campaign was a half-hearted one. The election result naturally went against her. Since the elections, Panabaka Lakshmi is completely inactive and did not even conduct a review of the election defeat in Tirupati. She is also not available to the party cadres.

The biggest tragedy for Panabaka Lakshmi was that she got an invite from the YSRCP to join the TDP not once, but twice. On both occasions, she refused to join the YSRCP. Now even if she wants to join the YSRCP, there is no welcome for her. The YSRCP does not need her anymore.

So, the question is where she will go after leaving the TDP. An unwelcoming YSRCP and an uninspiring BJP are the only two options available. Yet, sources say that she is determined to leave the TDP. Sources say that she would make the announcement once the current wave of Corona subsides. Panabaka Lakshmi all set to leave TDP