All defector TDP MLAs in Telangana Assembly have become members of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS). With Telangana Assembly speaker S Madhusudanachary giving his seal of approval to the request of these MLAs to treat their groups as “real” TDP and allow them to merge with the TRS, the TDP has become a minuscule party. Speaker Chary on Thursday permitted the 12-member TTDLP, which defected to the TRS to merge themselves with the Pink Party. The sudden decision came to light when the Assembly posted this on the bulletin of its website late in the evening. Speaker allotted seats to these MLA along with the TRS MLAs.
This is the result of the letter written by former TDP floor leader E Dayarakar Rao to the speaker , claiming their group as the real TDP. Dayakar, immediately after his defection from TDP to TRS dealt a severe blow on his own party by claiming his group was the real TDP and by writing a letter to speaker to allow them to merge with TRS. His claim derived further strength when two more MLAs from GHMC area, Maganti Gopinath and Arikepudi Gandhi, who also joined TRS, requested the speaker to treat them as the members of Dayakar Rao’s group. With this the original strength of ‘mother TTDLP’ came down to 12 from 15.
As for mother TDP, the party had suspended all the members from the TDP and sought their disqualification as per the provisions of Anti-defection law. New leader of residuary mother TTDLP A Revanth Reddy petitioned to the speaker seeking action against them. Now the TDP is left with only three MLAs- Revanth Reddy, S Veeraiah and R Krishhanaiah.
It has been KCR’s dream to banish the “Andhra Party” Telugu Desam from the state of Telangana. His hostility towards TDP supremo and the TDP can’t be neutralized by any gesture like inviting him to the foundation stone laying ceremony of Amaravati or Naidu himself attending the Yagam performed by KCR. Rao’s ultimate goal is to ensure that TRS remains the only party of Telangana and rest are not. Since it is difficult to liquidate the party from among the voters, the TRS boss seems to have chosen the route of defection politics- eliminating the party from all electoral bodies from the state. The process is gaining momentum. In the recent elections to local bodies, TDP drew blank. and Assembly instance has potential to attune the people of Telangana to think that TDP is not their party.
The protest from the TDP is feeble. Because what Naidu is perusing in Andhra Pradesh is the same defection politics. He is also waiting for a chance to take as many MLAs as possible from YSRC to erase the party from Assembly. Recent admissions of YSRC MLAs into TDP stands testimony to this. Only hurdle for TDP supremo is that YSRC is too big an opposition in the AP Assembly to be liquidated through defections.
According to L Ramana, the TTDP president, the Yellow party will challenge the speaker’s decision in the court of law.
