It appears Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has become a persona non grata in Telangana, after the recent debacle of the grand alliance or Maha Kootami in the recent assembly elections in the state.
Many leaders in the Maha Kootami has now started expressing their views rather openly that Naidu’s campaign had done more harm than good to the alliance.
“There should not have been any alliance with the TDP in the first place, as the people of Telangana still feel Naidu is the real villain who had tried to stall the formation of separate state till the last moment. They were carried away by TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s campaign that Naidu was trying to bring back Andhra colonial rule back in Telangana,” a Congress leader said.
Telangana Jana Samithi president M Kodandaram also felt that the intense campaign of Naidu in Telangana was one of the reasons for the Maha Kootami’s failure in the elections.
He said people thought that elections were a fight between KCR and Naidu.
Another Congress leader said it was initially thought the TDP vote bank would get transferred to the Congress.
“Especially, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu’s campaign would help attract settlers’ votes. But the strategy backfired completely,” he said.