Telugu Desam leaders appeared unaffected by the Election Commission giving the Telangana ACB the green signal to make an investigation into the note-for-vote case on Wednesday. But some of the worst fears about the continuation of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and fumes of other possible worst-case scenarios are wafting up party echelons.
Transport Minister Sidda Raghava Rao said the TDP would not be cowed down by “blackmailing” tactics of the TRS Government, when he was contacted by The Hindu, after a marathon Cabinet meeting in Hyderabad.
Putting up a brave face, he said: “We will go on a counter-offensive by pursuing the phone tapping issue to logical end.” The Government had evidence to put the TRS on the dock, he added.
Making light of the ACB questioning TDP MLC nominee in Telangana V.Narendar Reddy, he said ''nothing will come out of this''.
TDP Prakasam district Chief D.Janardhana Rao expressed confidence that the Centre would take care of the AP's interests on all issues. The TDP was fully prepared to face the TRS politically and legally, he asserted.
Denying that the BJP had not come to the rescue of the ruling TDP, another TDP MLA D. Balaveeranjeneya Swamy said: “Union Home Secretary A.K.Goel is expected to visit Hyderabad shortly to address the issues raised by us”.
A senior TDP leader from Guntur district said the party did not need the support of the BJP at the Centre to resolve the problem. “This is between TDP and TRS and so it will be settled between us,” he said.
Former minister and TDP MLC candidate Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu on Wednesday squarely blamed the Congress and YSR Congress parties of playing ‘murky politics’.
