Undavalli Sridevi, a suspended YSR Congress party legislator from Tadikonda assembly constituency, is said to be in a dilemma over her future political plans and which party she should join to sustain her political career.
The YSR Congress party leadership believes that Sridevi would obviously defect to the Telugu Desam Party as she had voted for the TDP candidate in the MLC elections. She also indicated her support for Amaravati farmers, which reinforces this belief.
However, according to the latest reports, Sridevi is contemplating joining the Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan. She is reported to have sent feelers to the Jana Sena Party leadership to that effect.
Sources suggest that Sridevi has made this decision based on the reports of an alliance between the TDP and Jana Sena. As part of the seat-sharing understanding, Tadikonda might be allocated to Jana Sena.
Tadikonda has a significant number of around 15,000 Kapu votes despite being a reserved constituency. In the last elections in 2019, Sridevi struggled to appeal to the Kapu vote bank and could only garner 10,000 Kapu votes. Winning by a margin of around 4,000 votes, Sridevi's husband, Dr Sridhar, disclosed.
If Sridevi joins the Jana Sena, there is every possibility that she might secure a good number of Kapu votes, as the YSRC is unlikely to get many. However, the problem is that Sridevi had been strongly attacking the Jana Sena Party and Pawan Kalyan all these days.
She even went to the extent of calling Pawan Kalyan a part-time politician, who has no base among the people.
Thus, it remains unclear whether she would be able to win the confidence of Jana Sena Party workers. Nevertheless, if there is no alternative leadership, Pawan may still prefer her, according to sources.
