TDP set eyes on BCs, youth
Hyderabad: The Telugu Desam Party has blown the poll bugle a year in advance. The party, apart from trying hard to win back the confidence of the people which had suffered a serious setback, will now identify itself more with the issues pertaining to the common man.
It will also make all out efforts to win back the BCs who had drifted away from the party ever since the T agitation went to a peak in 2009.
A source in the party told that the TDP wants to have a complete makeover by the time it holds the Mahanadu in May. The party strategies include giving 33 per cent of seats in Assembly to the BCs on one hand and infuse new blood by giving greater weightage to youth in important positions both within the party and at the hustings on the other.
The party has already identified some youngsters who are presently being trained by the party seniors. It will announce its candidates well ahead of others and also has proposed to indicate sort of draft manifesto during the Mahanadu.
TDP chief N Chandrababau Naidu, according to sources, had told the party insiders that efforts should be made to win back the BCs including the BC youth who at present do not have a platform and were not willing to go with either the Congress party or the TRS.
Asked why all political parties had gone into electoral mode a year in advance, the source said that for about two-and-a-half years, the State did not witness any political activity because of the T stir.
Now, as things are unfolding, move for new political realignments has begun.Besides, party president N Chandrababu Naidu would continue his visits to the districts across the State focusing on various problems of the people. The party analysts say that this would help them to keep the rank and file in a state of total preparedness.
The ensuing local body elections and the by-elections will prove to be a testing ground for the popularity of each of the parties. Simultaneously, it will also ensure that the NTR scion, N Balakrishna, gets fully involved in the party activities and takes up whirlwind tour of the State.
'His oratorical skills are being honed and soon he would be among the star campaigners for the party,' said the party source. In fact, the war of words between Balakrishna and Chiranjeevi has already been getting intense.
These two actor turned politicians, who till recently claimed to be friends, have started throwing challenges and counter challenges.
Balakrishna is also attempting to convert his fans into the party cadre so that the TDP can negate the impact of YSRC party which had caused some dent among the young voters in Seemandhra region, the source added.
News Posted: 24 January, 2012
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