Senior Telangana TDP leader and former state minister Motkupalli Narasimhulu said today that the Telangana unit of the TDP should be merged with the ruling TRS.
Narasimhulu remarks caused ripples in the TDP and assumed special significance since the statement was made on the occasion of party founder NTR's death anniversary on Thursday.
Shedding light on his reasons behind making the controversial statement, Narasimhulu said that the Telangana unit of the TDP was on the verge of extinction and that no party leader favoured the idea of the TDP allying with the BJP.
He further said that the party's cadre was disintegrating in the state, and hence it would be in everyone's best interests to merge it with the TRS as the merger would save the former from being humiliated in the elections.
Reiterating that it wouldn't be wrong to consider merging with the TRS, he recalled that even Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was a TDP man during the initial days of his political career, and thus the two parties did already have an extant connection.
He also found fault with TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu for not visiting Hyderabad to pay tribute to the party's late founder, and demanded that Naidu set protocol and work aside, and rush to Hyderabad without any further delay.
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