Ongole: Is Nandamuri Balakrishna firming up his grip over party affairs? It seems so if the decisions taken by Balaiah during his tour to the coastal region are any indication.
Balaiah sprang a surprise on Thursday when he decided to travel with his long-time associate and ticket aspirant Kadiri Baburao during the roadshow and ignored Kanigiri constituency in-charge Mukku Kasireddy, a former ZP chairman and ex-legislator from Kanigiri. Sources said peeved over this “ill-treatment” Kasireddy could well snap his ties with the party.
Party leaders fear that Balaiah’s decisions could hit the prospects in the western region of Prakasam district where Reddys are with the party for a long time in spite of the Congress’s strong presence.
Kasireddy has been nurturing the constituency but Baburao, a Kapu, is being projected by Balaiah, much to the chagrin of Kasireddy’s followers.
Naidu had sent Baburao to Darsi, a relatively Kapu-dominant constituency in the 2004 elections, but he lost the battle. “Since then Baburao has set his eyes on Kanigiri by unseating the local strongman Kasireddy with the support of Balaiah,” a Kasireddy aide said.
The fact that Balaiah had stayed overnight at Baburao’s residence in Seelamvaripalle village in Chandrasekharapuram mandal tantamounts to his rising clout with the actor, sources said.
However, it is not clear whether Balaiah’s decisions have the endorsement of his brotherin-law and party chief Chandrababu Naidu.
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