TDP may win in 50% of seats in Telangana by-elections

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will surprise political analysts with strong performance in Telangana by-elections by winning in more than 40% of seats that are going to polls. According to TDP sources, it is leading in 2 Parliamentary constituencies and 8 Assembly seats with just 1 week left for polling. Congress may not win in more than 2-3 Assembly seats. TRS is hoping on rising Telangana sentiment. TDP analysis:

Loksabha seats: TDP may win 2 seats out of 4 Parliamentary constituencies. Telugu Desam has no hopes on Karimnagar and Hanamkonda seats.

1. Warangal: Telugu Desam candidate Yerrabelli Dayakara Rao is leading but growing Telangana sentiment may tilt the tide in favour of TRS in the last minute.

2. Adilabad: Venugopala Chari will win this seat.

Assembly seats: Telugu Desam Party will win in 6-8 Assembly constituencies in Telangana by polls. TDP is contesting in 14 segments leaving Musheerabad and Cheriyal to CPI (M). BJP candidate Laxman is leading in Musheerabad due to sympathy factor as he lost by narrow margin in the the 2004 Assembly elections. TRS will win in Siddipet and Kamalapur by massive margin. TDP is betting big on Adilabad, Rangareddy, Mahaboobnagar and Warangal districts.

1. Secunderabad: TDP is ahead despite set back in Cantonment polls. There is severe anti-incumbency against TRS candidate.

2. Alair: Narsimhulu will win despite indifferences among TDP leaders.

3. Dommat: Muthyam Reddy is far ahead here.

4. Station Ghanpur: Kadiyam Srihari is leading over TRS candidate Vijayarama Rao.

5. Huzurabad: Peddireddy will win by narrow margin.

6. Vikarabad: Strong candidate, anti incumbency against TRS candidate and traditional stronghold.

7. Jadcherla: Stiff competition between TDP and Congress. Congress may spend heavily in the last moment.

8. Khanapur: TDP can easily win here.

Verdict: TRS is gradually building Telangana tempo (sentiment) with the help of educated people especially in Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Medak districts which may change the situation by the time of polling. Second leg of campaign by TDP president Chandrababu Naidu may help the Telugu Desam candidates to retain the edge especially in Warangal and Adilabad districts.

My opinion: Telugu Desam Party should support “Separate Telangana moment” and respect people sentiment. This is my personal opinion.

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TDP Candidates for Telangana by-elections

Telugu Desam party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu announced strong candidates for the Telangana by-elections in Piduguralla during “Mee Kosam” programme. TDP strategically postponed prestigious “Mahanadu” event due to these elections. If Mahanadu were held, TDP will need to announce its opinion on key Telangana issue and party cadre needs to spend more time on Mahanadu which will hamper election preparations. TDP leaders in Telangana will be disappointed as they are hoping for pro-Telangana announcement from Chandrababu Naidu in Mahanadu.

Telugu Desam party candidates for Telangana by elections:

Loksabha candidates:

1. Karimnagar: L. Ramana – In Karimnagar, all major parties fielded same candidates who contested during last by elections. If KCR wins with lesser majority (which will happen) than last by election, it is a severe blow to Telangana movement. Anti-Telangana groups will highlight this and especially it will come as a handy tool for YSR.

2. Warangal: Yerrabelli Dayakar Rao. Though he is reluctant to contest, Party succeeded in fielding this giant in TRS stronghold.

3. Hanamkonda: B. Venkateswarlu.

4. Adilabad: L.Venugopalachari. TDP has high hopes on this Loksabha segment.

Assembly candidates:

1. Secunderabad: Talasani Srinivasa Yadav. TDP is ahead in this constituency.

2. Vikarabad: Sanjeeva Rao. TDP will wrest this seat from TRS due to anti-incumbency and strong candidate.

3. Jadcherla: Chandrasekhar. Congress and TDP are ahead in this constituency.

4. Siddipet: Ravindra Reddy. Harish Rao of TRS will win this seat by more than 50,000 votes according to analysts.

5. Dommat: Muthyam Reddy.

6. Myadaram: Mallesam.

7. Ramayampet: M. Hanmanatha Rao. TDP has high hopes in this segment. Severe anti-incumbency against Padma Devender Reddy of TRS.

8. Station Ghanpur: Kadiyam Srihari.

9. Kamalapur: M. Damodar Reddy.

10. Huzurabad: Peddireddy.

11. Therlam: T. Laxminaidu. Election is a formality here.

12. Yellareddy: J. Surender.

13. Dichpalli: M. Venkateswara Rao.

14. Khanapur: Ramesh Rathod.

15. Alair: M. Narsimhulu. Chandrababu Naidu failed to control infighting in this seat which is a TDP bastion.

16. Khairathabad: TDP is not contesting here.

17. Musheerabad: TDP allocated this seat to CPM. BJP is ahead in this seat due to sympathy towards BJP candidate.

18. Cheriyal: TDP allocated to CPM as part of alliance.

Latest TDP news:

1. Dayakara Rao started his campaign in Warangal.

2. Nannapaneni Rajakumari fainted due to sun stroke during “Mee Kosam” programme in Piduguralla.

TRS is ahead in most constituencies but TDP is building momentum in most segments due to strong candidates and traditional strongholds.

Video: Chandrababu Naidu speech in Ongole

Telugu Desam party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu toured Prakasam district in “Yeruvaka” programme. He received stunning response from people in Martur, Addanki, Darsi, Ongole, S.N.Padu and Kondapi constituencies. People waited till midnight to see his leader in Darsi and Chimakurthi. He didn’t even sleep as tour is running 8 hours behind the schedule. After 1982 NTR tour, neither NTR nor Chandrababu Naidu visited these remote villages in the last 25 years. There is a clear wave for TDP among the people if we go by the people response in traditionally strong Congress bastion-Prakasam district. Farmers and youth actively participated in the programme. TDP president should participate more in these people oriented programmes to gain people confidence.

Chandrababu Naidu speech at NTR statue in Ongole:


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Most popular persons among TDP activists

I have conducted a small survey to find out the popular leaders in the Telugu Desam Party during Mahanadu. Party activists still have resounding faith in the Nandamuri family. Paritala Ravi is still revered as “Hero” by TDP activists cutting across all regions. Surprise finding of the survey is GMC Balayogi and Y. Madhava Reddy are more popular than some of the current Politbureau members. Paritala Sunitha, Roja, Mullapudi Renuka and Nannapaneni Rajakumari are popular women leaders.

Popularity among TDP activists:

1. N.T. Ramarao
2. N. Chandrababu Naidu
3. Paritala Ravi – He is more popular than Chandrababu Naidu in the youth.
4. N. Balakrishna
5. N. Harikrishna
6. Ramoji Rao
7. Nagam Janardhana Reddy - He is the rising star in the Party.
8. T. Devender Goud - He is liked by Telangana activists but disliked by Andhra and Rayalaseema activists.

Leaders like Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy, Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, Yerram Naidu and Bhooma Nagireddy are popular only in select regions.

I request more comprehensive survey to find out the opinions of party activists regarding party leaders.

Marriage of the decade in August

Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu’s son, Lokesh, will marry Tollywood top hero Balakrishna’s daughter, Brahmani, in the last week of August. “The marriage of the decade” will have far reaching implications on the politics of Andhra Pradesh. Image Courtesy: Eenadu.

Though Chandrababu Naidu is against marriages within close relatives, he agreed to this alliance because of bride’s great qualities like intelligence, middle class behaviour and good upbringing. Chandrababu Naidu married Balakrishna’s sister Bhuvaneswari. So this alliance will further strengthen the relations between both families.

Lokesh is studying MBA at Stanford while Brahmani has just written her 3rd year engineering exams.

It dispelled all the rumours about Balakrishna’s political plans like joining Congress or announcing a new party.

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Telugu Desam Party district presidents

Polls to elect the district bodies once again highlighted the growing indiscipline in Telugu Desam party. No one wanted to lead the party during the crisis period of 2004-06 except leaders like Jyothula Nehru and Brahmanaiah. Now with an on 2009 Assembly elections, everyone is trying for this coveted post. Party Leadership once again failed to appoint youth and women leaders as district presidents.

Only 4 are new presidents and all others are incumbents.

Presidents of the TDP district committees:

1. Prakasam – Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy.
2. Vizayanagaram – Y. Ramanamurthy.
3. Visakhapatnam – B. Satyanarayana Murthy.
4. Vizag Urban – Zaheer Ahmed.
5. Srikakulam – G. Sivaji (New president).
6. Nizamabad – P. Srinivasa Reddy.
7. Rangareddy – Mahendra Reddy.
8. Medak – M. Hanmantha Rao (New president).
9. Mahaboobnagar – P. Ramulu.
10. Krishna – A. Brahmanaiah.
11. Vijayawada Urban – G. Rammohanarao.
12. East Godavari – Jyothula Nehru.
13. Karimnagar – L. Ramana. ( Babu should concentrate on this district).
14. Adilabad – G. Hanumantharao.
15. Nalgonda – S. Goud (New President).
16. West Godavari – K. Subbarayudu.
17. Anantpur – Hanumantharaya Chowdary.
18. Chittoor – N. Amaranath Reddy.
19. Guntur – P. Pullarao.
20. Nellore – S. Chandramohan Reddy.
21. Kadapa – Raghuramireddy (New President).
22. Kurnool – B. Rajasekhar Reddy.
23. Khammam – T. Nageswararao.
24. Warangal – R. Prakashreddy.
25. Hyderabad – Election will be held after Mahanadu.

Chandrababu Naidu should immediately control the growing indiscipline in the Telugu Desam party which was the major differentiating factor from Congress during N.T.Ramarao days. Chandrababu Naidu is still unable to give new direction to the Telugudesam party with clear views on policies like Telangana, Youth and Women in party and Pothireddypadu.

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Request: If anyone have the copy of the Telugu Desam chargesheet on 3-year rule of Congress party government, please mail the scanned copy to dr.nvkrishna@gmail.com.

Top 10 performers of Telugu Desam party

I have selected these top 10 hard working leaders based on their performance for the past 3 years. These rankings do not represent the designation in the party or their seniority.

1. Nagam Janardhana Reddy: 9/10.

Undoubtedly, he is the most popular leader among the cadre. He was the face of the Party for the first 2 years. He is the hope for cadre. His speeches in the Assembly and outside inspired the cadre especially during the turbulent period of 2004-06. He got maximum applause even during TANA meetings in Chicago.

2. Anantpur Party workers: 9/10.

They showed their resilience even after the death of Paritala Ravi. 63 party workers laid their lives for Party. Anantpur district always play a crucial role in the critical situations for party

3. T. Devender Goud: 8/10.

Most disciplined and hard working leader in the Party. He almost single handily protected the TDP cadre in Telangana region with Pathayatras and dare devil attitude. His planning was the major reason for the success of Telugu Desam in Telangana especially in Rangareddy district in the local body elections. His outspoken nature sometimes landed him in trouble.

4. Jyothula Nehru (East Godavari): 8/10.

Telugu Desam Party won Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation under his leadership. He worked hard to resurrect the party in the politically crucial district. Telugu Desam Party will win more than 15 seats in East Godavari in 2009 Assembly Elections.

5. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu: 7/10

He was subdued in the first two years after the defeat of Telugu Desam Party in 2004 Assembly elections. He is gradually coming back to his best. He proved his leadership qualities once again in the Babli issue. He stunned the both the Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samithi by his jet speed moves on the problems of Telangana region.

6. Venugopala Chary: 6/10.

Fasting for Basara IIT and the success of party in local body elections.

7. Nannapaneni Rajakumari: 6/10.

She is the voice of Telugu Desam. She inspired cadre with her daring speeches during elections.

8. Telangana Leaders and Cadre: 6/10.

Party senior leaders like K. SriHari, Y. Dayakar Rao and M. Venkateswara Rao along with party cadre worked hard to save the party from TRS and Congress especially during 2004-05. Party will get more seats in Telangana region than traditional stronghold Coastal Andhra.

9. Sidda Raghava Rao: 6/10.

This MLC helped party with his money and rose quickly to become the vice-president.

10. M.V. Mysoora Reddy: 5/10.

He silenced his critics with his sincerity and hard working nature. He is the research specialist and back ground boy for the TDP legislative Party.

Special Mention:

Vijaya Ramarao, Chennamaneni Vidyasagara Rao, Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and Mullapudi Renuka.

Party should include more young leaders in the organisation in place of aged senior leaders. They may not take the Party into 21st century.

Chandrababu Naidu in new Avatar

Silver Jubilee celebrations of Telugu Desam Party showed Nara Chandrababu Naidu in a new Avatar. For the first time, he agreed his mistakes without hypocricy in a big meeting. This will help him to keep in people’s good books in the long run. He gave stern warning to the dissidents like Gutta Sukhendra Reddy. He cleverly commented on burning Telangana issue. He was spoken like a true socialist.
Source: Eenadu

In the meeting, he spoke passionately about the route map, his desire to serve poor and to give Telugu Desam a different look. He wants to introduce reforms in the party organisation by including young leaders. Chandrababu declared 40% of seats to young leaders in the 2009 assembly elections. If he will stand on his talk, we will be going to see 1983 TDP and new Chandrababu Naidu.

Are we going to see a socialist Babu in place of capitalist?

Highlights from the Silver Jubilee meeting:

1. Chandrababu Naidu speech.
2. Devender Goud speech on caste system.
3. Nannapaneni Rajakumari comments on peace and Rajasekhar Reddy’s rule.
4. Exhibition on NTR and Telugudesam Party.
5. Graphical speech of NT Ramarao prepared by Muralimohan.

Minus Points in the meeting:

1. Absence of NTR family members.
2. Too many leaders on the stage.

Immediate actions required to revive Telugu Desam:

1. Include more youth leaders into party organisation.
2. Imbibe communist (fighting spirit) culture into party cadre.
3. Chandrababu should meet party activists as frequently as possible.

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Telugu Desam Party (TDP) - Silver Jubilee year (1982-2007)

Telugu Desam Party successfully completed 25 years of political life. It was founded by N.T.Ramarao (NTR) to change the political scenario in Andhra Pradesh. He came to power within 9 months of Telugu Desam inception. He successfully defeated Congress party which is in power since 1952.

Major incidents in Telugu Desam history:

1. October 1981: NTR announced his intention to dedicate himself to serve the Telugu people for 15 days in a month since his 60th birthday. This was happened in “Sardar Paparaidu” film shooting. NTR got his inspiration to serve people from Hindu spiritual guru Swami Vivekananda.

2. March 28, 1982: NT Ramarao formed officially a political steering committee of 13 members.

3. March 29, 1982: NTR announced the formation of Telugu Desam Party at 2:30 PM as he was a strong believer of Astrology.

4. April11, 1982: First public meeting of Telugu Desam Party was held in Hyderabad at Nizam Collage Grounds. More than 80,000 people attended to that meeting which was never happened in Andhra politics. Main supported to NTR is Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, an ex-congress minister.

5. May 27-29, 1982: First “Mahanadu” (Party’s annual meeting) was held in Tirupati. It was a grand success. Lakhs of people from all over the Andhra Pradesh attended to that party meeting.

6. NTR extensively campaigned for the 1983 elections for 9 months from May 1982 to January3, 1983. He ended his campaign in Tirupati where the first meeting was held.

7. January 5, 1983: It was the polling day for the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.

8. Assembly Results: Telugu Desam won 203 seats while Congress won 60 seats. Other parties won in 30 constituencies.

9. NTR became the first non-congress chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

10. He gave importance to 3 things in political or personal life:

A. Morality
B. Honesty
C. Discipline.

August Turmoil:

11. June 9, 1984: NT Ramarao went to America for a health check-up and was diagnosed as suffering from Heart disease. He returned to India and went back to United stated in August. He was operated (by-pass surgery) by famous surgeon Dr. Dental Coolie. He returned to India on August 14, 1984.

12. During this period, Nadendla Bhaskara Rao revolted against NTR and Telugu Desam was in disarray due to politics in the party.

13. August 16, 1984: Ramlal, Andhra Governor, dismissed the Telugu Desam government and invited Nadendla to sworn in as Chief Minister.

14. Public rebelled against these events and observed strikes and agitations in support of NTR dismissal.

15. As situation worsened in the state, the central government recalled Ramlal and sent Sankardayal Sarma as new governor of Andhra Pradesh.

16. September 20, 1984: NTR proved his majority and again became Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. This was a unbelievable incident at that time.

17. NTR sent a letter to the governor recommending the dissolution of the Assembly.

18. Telugu Desam won 35 Loksabha seats in the Parliament elections while Congress swept the polls all over the country due to sentiment caused by Indira Gandhi’s death.

19. March 9, 1985: NTR became the chief minister for the third time after winning 1985 assembly elections. TDP won in 202 assembly constituencies.

20. NT Ramarao formed the National front to unite the opposition parties at the national level.

21. 1989 Assembly elections: Telugu Desam lost these elections and Congress came to power.

22. September 11, 1993: NTR married Laxmiparvathi.

23. 1994 Assembly Elections: Telugu Desam came to power by winning 213 assembly elections while Congress got just 26 seats. NTR sworn in as Chief Minister for the fourth time and as 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

24. Troubles started in TDP and party divided into two factions.

A. NTR TDP - NTR faction.
B. Official TDP - Chandrababu faction.

25. September 1, 1995: N. Chandrababu Naidu sworn in as 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

26. 1999 Assembly Elections: Telugu Desam won the elections and Chandrababu sworn in as chief Minister for the second time.

27. 2004 Assembly Elections: Congress party came to power by defeating Telugu Desam.

28. NT Ramarao tenure as Chief Minister was 7 ½ years.

29. Chandrababu tenure as Chief Minister was 9 years.

Emergence of Telugu Desam is a significant change in Andhra Pradesh politics. NTR was the only leader in national politics who can match Indira Gandhi in attracting people.

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Chandrababu Naidu in 150 Pioneers of Communications

Voice and Data Magazine selected Telugu Desam President Nara Chandrababu as one of the Pioneers of Indian Communications. In its special Issue, It praised Naidu as a great visionary.

As per Magazine, He used communications for Governance effectively. He brought out drastic changes in the way Andhra Pradesh Government functions. He advocated global thinking and the use high speed digital communication facilities in order to find a place in world map.

He conceived Andhra Pradesh broadband project for implementing E-Governance applications.

In 1995, Chandrababu Naidu became the CM of AP and under his supervision, DoT has connected all 1125 mandals in the Andhra Pradesh state with fibre-optic networks.

With this dynamic leader, AP became one of the first Wap services provider internationally.

Congrats to Chandrababu Naidu on this occasion. Keep up this vision.

Telugu Desam Party - Inspirational Incident of the year 2006

Priyanka, wonder kid from Guntur district, stunned the audience with her speech in Mahanadu at Rajahmundry. Infront of large party activists and top Telugu Desam Leaders, that little baby criticised the Congress party authoratatively.

Party President N.Chandrababu Naidu impressed by her speech and praised the baby on the dias. Even experienced senior leaders surprised by her knowledge and fearlessness.

Babies like her are the future of Telugu Desam Party. It is difficult to forget this wonder kid.

Keep it up!

Chandrababu Naidu in Bobbili

Telugu Desam president N.Chandrababu Naidu is campaigning in the Bobbili Loksabha Constituency. He received tremendous response from people in Vizianagaram town.

Bobbili is a strong seat seat for Telugu Desam. It is the one of the two seats TDP won in 1989 disaster along with Narsapur.

TDP is hoping to win this seat with the help of Pydithalli Sentiment and anti -Government sentiment.

Nandamuri Harikrishna already campaigned for TDP in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts.

Road shows are succesful in Karimnagar

TDP President Mr. N.Chandrababu Naidu successfully completed his 2 day tour of karimnagar. People responded to the telugudesam leader speeches with unbelievable enthusiasm.

TDP cadre is in happy mood with stunning success of his road shows with more women attendance.

Naidu mainly attacked KCR indirectly sending signals that he is telugu desam's main opponent in the election.

Telugu desam has high hopes on backward caste (BC) votes and anti- government sentiment.

TDP incharge T.Devender Goud and Candidate L.Ramana also attended the road shows along with local party leader.