Lashing out at the Telangana TDP's senior leaders, TDP MLA Revanth Reddy today bemoaned his being stripped of his party posts at a time when party supremo Chandrababu Naidu was abroad.
He asked the party leaders if they thought he would earn several crores of rupees if he had continued in the post for two more days.
He also expressed suspicion that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao may have arranged the combined meeting of the T-TDP and BJP at Golkonda Hotel. He said that there was no meaning in convening a meeting in a star hotel to discuss public problems.
In an informal talk at the TDLP office on Thursday, Reddy said that party leader Chandrababu Naidu himself didn't favour stripping him of the party posts. He also said that he would not answer the leaders who stayed in the party office in the day time and went to KCR's place in the night, and alleged that the leaders who were scolding him were all KCR's supporters, and that his main fight was against KCR.
Reddy said that there was nothing wrong if the Telangana TDP entered an alliance with the Congress as the parties had been working together for the last few years anyway. The T-TDP and the Congress had worked unitedly in the recent Singareni employees union elections, too, he said. He said that there was no guarantee that the Telangana BJP which had aligned with the TDP in Andhra Pradesh would enter into an alliance even in Telangana. Alliances took place on the basis of local issues, and the TDP chief needed to give a free hand to the T-TDP leaders to enter alliances, he said. He pointed out that the Communists had entered into an electoral alliance with the Congress in West Bengal but the same Communists contested the elections independently in Kerala.
Finding fault with some T-TDP leaders who were arguing that the TDP was formed to oppose the Congress and that there was no need to enter an alliance with that party, Reddy said that the TRS had also come into being against the TDP, and asked how in that case the T-TDP leaders were proposing an alliance with that party.
T-TDP MLA from Sathupally Sandra Venkata Veeraiah attended the BAC meeting instead of Revanth Reddy. Reddy, who said that he would organize a TDLP meeting on Thursday, cancelled the meeting on the request of Veeraiah. Reddy also abstained from the meeting of TDP and BJP MLAs held at Golkonda Hotel.