BJP ready for solo act

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, March 30, 2014:  A day after the BJP Telangana unit chief G Kishan Reddy told his party men that they may go it alone, deadlock over BJP-TDP seat sharing still continues in Seemandhra too. BJP AP unit leaders too are now seems to be gearing up to go it alone in the forthcoming polls.

According to reliable sources in BJP, While the saffron party has asked for 7 loksabha and 25 assembly seats in coastal Andhra and Rayalseema regions, TDP is said to have agreed for 3 loksabha and 8 assembly seats.

Not happy with the TDP’s proposal, BJP Andhra Pradesh unit has left the decision over alliance with TDP to the party central leadership. BJP AP unit, president, Kambhampati Haribabu said that they are ready to go to polls alone without any alliance with TDP, if the party leadership asks so.

“Talks are still on. There is a stalemate. We mat get clarity on seat sharing in another 2 days. We have informed the outcome of the talks with our party president and other leaders of central leadership. We are even ready to go it alone without any alliances in AP if our central leadership desires so,” said Haribabu. 

It is reliably learnt that the meetings of BJP national leader Prakash Javdekar with TD leaders in the last week, on seat sharing, has hit a road block,  with both the parties not willing to spare Vizag and Vijayawada seats.

While the TD was willing to give away Tirupathy, Narasapuram and Rajampet seats to BJP, Chandrababu Naidu is not so keen to give away Vizag and Vijayawada seats to the saffron party.

It is learnt that, TD is also ready to give, 5 more assembly seats, but not ready to compromise on the loksabha seats which resulted in a stalemate in the talks between the leaders of both the parties.  TD wanted to let one assembly in every district of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to the BJP.  

Meanwhile, after TD, the saffron party, BJP, turned out to be a hot favourite destination now a days, for the defectors. In a surprise development, hundreds of activists from various political parties joined BJP Vizag unit at a party workers meeting held on Sunday. Till recently nobody was interested in joining the saffron party.