Despite the aggressive postures adopted by Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu against the YSR Congress party, he is not able to stem the rot in the party.
Apparently lost hope on the revival of party’s fortunes, the TDP leaders are looking for greener pastures.
While many leaders are looking up to the Bharatiya Janata Party, some others feel the YSRC is the best bet to safeguard their political future.
Close on the heels of Visakha Dairy chairman Adari Anand and his followers who chose to dump the TDP and defect to the YSR Congress party, another senior TDP leader and former MLA from Ramachandrapuram Thota Trimurthulu is also planning to call it quits to the party.
Trimurthulu abstained from the TDP review meeting conducted by Naidu for East Godavari district at Kakinada on Thursday.
Though Naidu personally called Trimurthulu over phone and asked him to attend the meeting, the former MLA preferred to skip the meeting.
Apparently, Trimurthulu already had a talk with YSRC president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy recently and cleared the decks for his entry into the party. Jagan is learnt to have offered YSRC district president post to Trimurthulu.
Similarly, another former MLA and senior leader Vangaveeti Radhakrishna from Vijayawada also is getting ready for defection.
He, however, is jumping into Jana Sena Party of actor Pawan Kalyan. Radha met Jana Sena leader Nadendla Manohar at Dindi and held discussions with him.
Interestingly, all these are prominent Kapu leaders in their respective districts. Many more Kapu leaders are expected desert the sinking TDP ship to jump into safer boats shortly.