It is now more or less official. Former minister and senior Telugu Desam Party leader in Telangana Mothkupalli Narasimhulu is most likely to join the Telangana Rashtra Samithi sooner or later.
It was evident from the way Mothkupalli going hammer and tongs at TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and lavishing praises on Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekha Rao on Friday.
Mothkupalli expressed regrets that Naidu had deliberately sidelined him despite his unflinching loyalty to the TDP all these years.
“What mistake did I commit? I had always been strived hard for strengthening of the party. Why wasn’t I invited to Mahanadu? Naidu did not give me an appointment to meet him to explain my viewpoint” he lamented.
Stating that Naidu had no faith in the leaders who had been loyal to the party, Mothkupalli wondered what Revanth Reddy had done to the TDP though Naidu had treated him as a tall leader.
“When Revanth performed his daughter’s marriage, Naidu took care of everything and spent a lot of time with him. But for my daughter’s marriage, he came very late at 4 pm,” he said.
At the same time, Mothkupalli praised KCR for giving due respect to Dalits, while Naidu had not done anything for Malas and Madigas.
“KCR has strived hard for the categorisation of SC reservations, while Naidu completely ignored the same. How can anybody believe Naidu that he would install 125 ft Ambedkar statue?” he asked.
Party sources say it is only a matter of time that Mothkupalli would meet KCR and formally join the TRS.
