Will TDP Ally With Congress Just For GHMC Seats?

Will the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) give up its very basic principle and plank of "anti-Congressism" and join hands with the Congress for the sake of stalling the winning spree of the ruling TRS in Telangana and bagging some seats in the upcoming GHMC and MLC elections?

Will the Nandamuri family members (Harikrishna, Balakrishna and Jr. NTR) and the supporters of the late NTR meekly submit to the wishes of TDP supremo Nara Chandrababu Naidu in case the latter takes a decision to join hands with the Congress?

Will the BJP, which is having a truck with the TDP, allow the latter to have an understanding with the Congress?

These are some of the questions being hotly debated in the political circles in general and in the TDP quarters in particular of late, in view of reports suggesting that some Telangana TDP leaders have suggested to the Party boss to enter an electoral understanding with the Congress in Telangana to hit TRS in the coming MLC and GHMC elections.

The T-TDP leaders are stated to have conveyed to Naidu that a proposal for a TDP—Cong tie-up has come from some of the senior Congress leaders of Telangana.

While the TDP chief has not taken any stance in the matter so far, there is intense debate in Party circles over the issue. While a section of the T-TDP leaders are of the opinion that some sort of direct or indirect understanding between the TDP-Congress and Left parties would yield the desired results to some extent, there are others who feel that such a tie-up would go against the wishes of TDP founder NTR, and was absolutely not desirable.

They also feel that such a decision would not be of any use as the TRS was in a very strong position. In case of such an understanding, the TRS would get an opportunity to attaack it as an unholy alliance and launch a scathing attack on the two parties (TDP and Cong) for bidding good-bye to principles and moral values, just with the motto of thwarting the onward march of the TRS by hook or crook, they opine.

What final decision will be taken in the matter is in the hands of Chandrababu Naidu, who himself has been a bitter critic and opponent of the Congress right from the day he joined the TDP. The TDP is likely to decide on the issue in the coming few days.