Hyderabad, June 14: TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was dismayed that he had no support of any kind in the campaign for the just concluded by-elections to the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and 18 assembly constituencies in the state from any one in the star-studded Nandamuri family. He has expected heroes of the clan Bala Krishna, Jr. NTR and Hari Krishna to help him in the campaign. But none of them have shared the burden of campaign with him. He has expected that at least Bala Krishna would campaign for the party. Instead, Bala Krishna tried to promote his film
‘Adhinayakudu’ through the by-polls. He has included some punch dialogues on statues being erected to leaders in an attempt to attack the late Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy and his son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s party, to draw crowds. He has even proudly announced that he was sending his film for poll campaign as he could not personally campaign. But both the idea and the film have bombed at the box office.
In sweltering heat, Chandrababu had to campaign alone for his party in the 12 districts where by-polls were held. None of the party leaders also could share his burden as no one else has a state-level stature and popularity (there are allegations that he himself has not allowed any one else to grow to that stature).
After Akhilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav has created a political tsunami in UP, Chandrababu started thinking of bringing his young and educated son Lokesh into politics, said reports.
Chandrababu has attempted this earlier also. Banners with big pictures of Lokesh were erected at the party’s last conclave ‘Maha Nadu’. But Hari Krishna has angrily walked out of that conclave protesting against importance not being given to him and his son Jr. NTR. This attempt of Naidu to project his son has then backfired.
As a retaliation Jr. NTR has kicked Lokesh out of Studio N which he was managing. Studio NTV channel was promoted to be the publicity arm of the TDP. Initially Lokesh was made in-charge of the channel.
However after differences sprouted between the Nara and Nandamuri families, Jr. NTR has unceremoniously kicked out Lokesh and all those he had appointed as his aides, as the channel was promoted by his father-in-law. Jr. NTR sat in the channel office for some days. However, he could not concentrate on its management because of his shooting schedules and the result is that it became the least watched channel.
Naidu then hastily said that the banners of Lokesh were erected by some party workers and he had nothing to do with it. He has even warned supporters of Lokesh of stringent action if they tried to violate party discipline.
It is a known fact that Lokesh was involved by Naidu in evolving party strategies during the 2009 election. Chandrababu has said then that Lokesh has gone on a whirlwind tour of some of the advanced countries to study the welfare schemes there. It was also said that some of the schemes announced by the TDP in its election manifesto of 2009 were the brain children of Lokesh.
However, because of the stiff resistance from the Nandamuri family, Naidu has stopped short of introducing Lokesh as his heir apparent.
But now as the Nandamuri family had not bothered about the party in the by-elections, Naidu is keen to bring his son back into business say sources. Initially he would be made in-chrge of the NTR Trust, which undertakes charity work. In the right time, he would be introduced into the party said sources.
Responding to these reports, Palle Raghunatha Reddy, TDP MLA has said none of them had any objection to Lokesh taking over. He said there was need for young leadership and the party would only be happy to have an intelligent youngster like Lokesh to lead it.
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