If Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has his way, Nandamuri Suhasini, daughter of former TDP politburo member late Nandamuri Harikrishna, will contest the assembly elections in Telangana.
According to sources, Suhasini, who got married and shifted to Kakinada long back, is being forced by her in-laws to contest the assembly elections.
She is likely to file the nomination from Kukatpalli, which was allotted to the TDP by the Congress as part of the grand alliance.
It is learnt both her brothers, Junior NTR and Kalyanram are against Suhasini contesting the elections on the TDP ticket.
But Naidu is said to be bringing pressure on her through her in-laws to enter the poll fray. Suhasini is wife of Srikanth, son of former MP Chundru Srihari.
It all began with some local leaders of the TDP approaching Naidu to request him to field a strong candidate from Kukatpalli, preferably one from the family of legendary actor and TDP founder N T Rama Rao, in the forthcoming elections.
In fact, the TDP leaders told Naidu that they had contacted Kalyanram and requested him to contest the elections, but he had not evinced interested in the same. Later they suggested the name of Suhasini.
Kukatpally is one of the key constituencies in the state where the majority of voters are Semandhra settlers and they are all great fans of NTR.
Hence, they wanted a member of NTR family to contest. Since Harikrishna died very recently, they felt Suhasini could get a lot of sympathy votes. Naidu agreed to the suggestion and is trying to bring pressure on her to contest.
Let us see whether she says yes to the proposal or not.