With elections to Rajya Sabha round the corner, several politicians and non-political personalities have started intense lobbying with the Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu for a nomination to the Upper House from Andhra Pradesh.
According to reports doing rounds in political circles, a media house owner who has been the backbone of the TDP right from the beginning and maintaining personal relations with Naidu, has been strongly trying for the Rajya Sabha nomination from the ruling party.
This gentleman, who is successfully running a Telugu newspaper and a news channel “with guts,” is reportedly playing a key role in drafting plans to lure the Opposition party MLAs into the TDP.
The modus operandi of this media house owner is to spread strong rumours about defection of YSR Congress party MLAs into the TDP so that they would create confusion among the people as well as his followers, besides sowing seeds of suspicion among the YSRC boss Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
When those MLAs come under pressure from inside and outside, the media biggie negotiates with them directly or indirectly and force them to join the TDP.
For his “services” in encouraging defections, this gentleman is demanding that he be rewarded with the Rajya Sabha seat.
Well, it is not known how far this speculation is correct, but one can easily guess who this media gentleman is.
Yet, Naidu is not able to take a decision, because he already has quite a few applications before him.
