Motkupalli trains guns on Nagam, again

Criticising his party colleague and MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy for saying that he would rather prefer to work for Telangana than campaign for the party candidate for the by-elections in Kadapa district, Telugu Desam Party MLA Motkupalli Narasimhulu on Saturday said that if the party leadership orders any member to campaigning, they must obey without any murmur.

Mr Narasimhulu added that if the leadership orders anyone to campaign in any part of the state, it is incumbent on the party members to do so. “Mr Janardhan Reddy should not have said that he would prefer working for Telangana rather than campaign. This sends a wrong message to the party cadre,” he told media persons at the TDLP on Saturday.

Reacting to a report carried by a section of the media that Mr Janardhan Reddy had allegedly ‘advised’ party president N Chandrababu Naidu to clear his stand on Telangana first before concentrating on the Kadapa by-polls, Mr Narasimhulu said that if this news report was true, it was utterly condemnable. “How can such a senior leader, that too someone who had served as a minister, can say such things? he wondered.

He also said that the Mr Janardhan Reddy had announced the ‘bus yatra’ across the Telangana region without taking the party’s MLAs into confidence. He said that that Mr Janardhan Reddy’s decision was unilateral and he had no knowledge about the proposed yatra.

“However, if the party leadership instructs the Telangana MLAs to take part in the bus yatra, we will do so,” Mr Narasimhulu asserted.

It is no secret that Mr Narasimhulu has been waging an intense battle with Mr Nagam Janardhan Reddy to be seen as the TDP face of Telangana. Mr Narasimhulu was earlier projected to replace Mr Janardhan Reddy as the Telangana Telugu Desam Party Forum convenor.

Their rivalry has intensified after Mr Janardhan Reddy was named the Public Accounts Committee chairman.