Narasapuram MP Raghuramakrishnam Raju has finally joined TDP in the presence of TDP chief and former Chief Minister N Chadnrababu Naidu at Palakollu `Prajagalam’ public meeting, on Friday evening.
Raghurama Krishnam Raju, who contested the last election for YCP in AP and won as MP, fell out with CM Jaganmohan Reddy within six months and distanced himself from the party. Without stopping there, he directly targeted Jagan and stayed away from AP along with Narsapur constituency for four years.
Now at the time of the election, Raghurama, who at one stage thought to say goodbye to politics after his futile efforts to get a BJP seat from his sitting Narsapur constituency, finally joined TDP at the initiative of its chief Chandrababu Naidu.
Chandrababu directly inviting him into the party mentioned his tireless struggle against the repressive regime of YS Jagan for four years and explained how Jagan targeted to `hind him physically’. Raghurama said that he was happy to join TDP.
Raghurama predicted that NDA will sweep the polls on June 4 in the state. It seems Chandrababu Naidu is making his last minute efforts to get Narsapur Lok Sabha seat by convincing BJP to take Eluru Lok Sabha seat in the district. However, if BJP is still adamant to accommodate Raju, it is learnt Naidu has decided to offer him Undi assembly seat, though already he announced TDP’s candidate there.
In this context, Raghurama Krishna Raju recently said that he wants to go to the Center, but people want to see him stay in the state and take the post of Assembly Speaker. On this occasion, Raghurama said that he has again come before the people on the initiative of Chandrababu.
Raju declared that Chandrababu and Pawan Kalyan combination set to create a new history on June 4, at the time of announcing election results.
Seeking public approval to induct Raju into TDP, Chandrababu said “Raghurama is a person who fought for the preservation of democracy under a psycho regime. With the approval of all of you, we cordially invite him to TDP in Palakollu. We are admitting him into the party”.
He lamented that the psycho regime prevented an MP from coming to his constituency? Is it fair? Is that acceptable to you. What is anarchy?, he asked.
“In the past, he was taken into police custody and subjected to torture at will. After bringing it to the notice of the President and the Governor and trying everything, he finally got out with the intervention of the court. Otherwise you would not see him today”, Naidu said.
That’s why, he asserted that there is a need to protect democracy and the future of children from the rule of the wicked. For that, he said that such people also need to work together.
