Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu does not seem to be content with whatever he had already usurped from YSR Congress party. He is still hungry to attract as many MLAs and leaders as possible from the rival party.
Call it luring or “purchasing,” Naidu has already got as many as 17 YSR Congress party MLAs into his party. Still, he is not satisfied.
His latest catch, according to reports, is Ramireddy Pratap Reddy, who is all set to join the TDP in a day or two. And Naidu is learnt to have given green signal not only to the MLAs, but also senior leaders who are eager to jump the fence.
Indications are that former minister and YSR Congress party West Godavari district unit president Kothapalli Subbarayudu is likely to join the TDP. It is a sort of homecoming for Subbarayudu, who was a minister in Chandrababu Naidu cabinet twice in the past.
And Naidu is learnt to have promised him to make him an MLC in the next turn and take him into the Cabinet, if possible.
So, Naidu is hell bent on destabilising the YSR Congress party to the maximum extent. But Jagan is confident that he can overcome this crisis by engineering reverse migration before 2019 elections.
