Call it jinx or a proper strategy to ignore someone. One has to learn from Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP after his takeover of the party from NTR in a coup in the year 1995. A leader is the one who binds people together and makes them stay with him and long for his leadership. Naidu has proved to be a very different one in this aspect.
Right from Renuka Chowdhary to Gutta Sukhender Reddy and Jayaprada to Mohan Babu, there is a very long list of leaders who left the party even after working really hard during tough times. Even Kodali Nani and Roja of present YSRCP have fallen victim to TDP’s politics. The moment someone’s bad time starts immediately the party disowns them indirectly and smokes them out rather than expel them from the public domain. When it comes to Rajya Sabha MP’s the less said the better.
Most leaders elected to Rajya Sabha from TDP are always on their way out at the end of their tenure.
This has been proved in the recent case of TJ Venkatesh, C M Ramesh and Sujana Chowdhary too. Now the grapevine is that its richest MP and Guntur Lok Sabha representative Galla Jayadev is on the way out for good. May not be necessarily into another party but he seems to be fed up with the yellow party.
While TDP alleged that YSRCP carried out a witch hunt regarding pollution emission norms of Amara Raja batteries, the party milked it politically but there was no open support for Jayadev nor the leadership stood by him. Now, again TDP is accusing YSRCP of hounding away his mega investment from AP and that he planned to start this venture in Telangana.
Sources say he may make some new investments in AP soon, try to stay politically neutral till next elections and simply quit politics rather than contesting next time. In this regard, he also seems to have the support of his mother and former minister Galla Aruna Kumari, who too has been sulking over the lack of prominence in the yellow party. If these reports are indeed true, then TDP’s reputation of use and throw seems to be still going strong at a time when the party is facing an existential crisis. Clearly, Babu seems to haven’t changed his way of functioning, and the party may only face more desertions in the months to come.
