HYDERABAD: Despite failing to win a single division in December 2020 GHMC elections and its Telangana state president L Ramana also losing badly in the recent graduates MLC constituency elections, TDP national president and former CM N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to keep the party alive in Telangana.
The TDP has fielded Arun Kumar Muvva from Nagarjuna Sagar for the April 17 bypoll.
Jana Reddy had won the seat in 1989 but on Congress ticket and lost to TDP’s G Ram Murthy in 1994. The TDP ended up runners-up in 1999, 2004 and 2009 elections from this constituency and secured a third place in 2014 polls. Though Naidu has directed the party leaders to go the people and explain to them the work being done by the TDP government especially in irrigation and road development when the state was united, political analysts ruled out the possibility of TDP making an impact in the bypoll.
“Even smaller parties and independents are in the fray. TDP is a long-gone chapter in Telangana. It could not make any impact on the prospects of other candidates in the elections it contested in the last few years in Telangana,” said former MLC K Nageshwar.