Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan’s elder brother K Naga Babu, who has been working with him since the beginning of the party, seems to be once again his plans to enter the Parliament are unlikely to be realized.
In the last general elections, he was prepared to contest to the Lok Sabha from Anakapalli. But suddenly at the last minute BJP’s CM Ramesh entered the scene and shattered his hopes. This time with the resignation of three YCP Rajya Sabha members, in the by polls after TDP offered one seat for Jana Sena, it was believed that Naga Babu will contest in the polls and goes to Rajya Sabha.
After the announcement of the schedule for three vacant Rajya Sabha seats from the state, suddenly B.C. leader R Krishnaiah said to enter the scene. One of the seats vacated was due to his resignation. Earlier, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha as YCP candidate.
This time, it is learnt that the BJP came forward to sponsor him as its candidate and insisted on Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to spare one among three vacant seats for it. From that seat R Krishnaiah is planning to contest to the Rajya Sabha.
These by-elections are being held after the resignation of Beeda Mastan Rao, Mopidevi Venkataramana and R Krishnaiah, who were elected to the Rajya Sabha from the YSRCP. TDP is insisting to contest two seats, of which one will be given to Beeda Mastan Rao again. There are several contestants for the second seat.
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has left the choice of contesting third seat one among BJP or Jana Sena. During Pawan Kalyan’s recent visit to Delhi, the BJP leadership was said to be convinced to spare this seat for it. However, TDP circles are said to be not enthusiastic to send R Krishnaiah to the Rajya Sabha from the state.
In 2009 assembly elections, TDP declared Krishnaiah as its Chief Minister candidate from Telangana and he was elected from L B Nagar as TDP candidate to the state assembly. However, after electing to the assembly he maintained a distance to the TDP. His political affiliations are said to be not stable.
