Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu seems to be getting isolated within his family for his attempt to promote his own son Nara Lokesh at the cost of others.
His close relatives and acquaintances are joining Naidu’s rival camp – YSR Congress party one after the other. His co-brother Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao and his son Hitesh Chenchuram formally joined the YSRC in the presence of party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in Hyderabad on Thursday.
At the same time, another close relative Narne Srinivasa Rao also met Jagan and joined the party. Narne’s wife Naga Mallika is the niece of Naidu and his daughter Lakshmi Pranathi got married to Junior NTR with the blessings of Naidu.
Narne said he had joined the YSRC because he was impressed with the leadership of Jaganmohan Reddy.
“I have been maintaining good relationship with the YSR family for 10 years. And my only ambition is to see Jagan as the chief minister of AP,” he said.
He took pot shots at Naidu to defend his entry into the YSRC.
“Naidu has miserably failed to provide leadership to the state. The administration has collapsed under Naidu’s regime,” he said and asserted that development of the state was possible only under the leadership of Jagan.
It is learnt Narne has requested for the YSRC ticket for Pedakurapadu assembly seat. But he told media that he had joined the party unconditionally.
“Wherever the party president asks me to contest, I will contest. Even if I don’t get the party ticket, I don’t mind,” he said.
While Narne clarified that his joining the YSRC had nothing to do with his son-in-law Jr NTR, he parried a question whether he would request his son-in-law to campaign for him.
