The humiliating performance by the Telugu Desam Party in the just concluded Kadapa by-elections seems to have sent panic waves in party president N Chandrababu Naidu. For the second time, his party candidates have lost deposits – first in Telangana by-elections and secondly in Kadapa.
It is now a struggle for existence for Naidu. He has realized that unless he rejuvenates the party cadres at all levels, there is absolutely no political future for him and his party. The kind of mandate Jagan and his mother got in Kadapa by-elections indicates that the YSR Congress party is going to emerge as a potential force in the state and if this monster is allowed to grow further, the TDP would have to be relegated to the opposition benches again.
That is the reason why the former chief minister has now started taking an aggressive posture against the Congress party. For the first time, he used harsh language against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Jaganmohan Reddy. He now has to tackle both the parties. May be, there is still some outside chance to the TDP, if Naidu sheds his tentativeness on the Telangana issue!
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