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The play that unfolded betwixt TDP and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) successful Nellore Municipal Corporation (NMC) implicit past week up of the Mayoral elections has near some citizens and governmental analysts successful the State perplexed.
With the required numbers connected its side, the TDP initially appeared not lone confident, but besides reportedly laid back. Seizing an opportunity, erstwhile Minister P. Anil Kumar Yadav allegedly entered the country overnight and poached backmost a bulk of candidates into the YSRCP.
As a result, the TDP enactment led by Minister and Nellore MLA Ponguru Narayana, Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy, enactment territory president and A.P. Waqf Board Chairman Abdul Azeez and territory person Kotamreddy Giridhar Reddy allegedly brought backmost a clump of them into its fold, and shifted them to an undisclosed destination.
Corporators belonging to some parties were allegedly seen switching loyalties, creating disorder connected some the sides.
The biggest jolt for the YSRCP came connected Sunday, erstwhile the party’s metropolis president Bobbala Srinivas Yadav, who was besides its level person successful the NMC, joined TDP successful the beingness of MLA Sridhar Reddy. Another corporator Sheikh Karimulla joined the confederation successful the beingness of Minister P. Narayana.
The destiny of Mayor Potluri Sravanthi Jayavardhan was slated to beryllium decided astatine a cardinal gathering connected December 18, aft a bulk of the corporators belonging to the TDP-led NDA confederation contemplated a no-confidence question past week.
Putting an extremity to the week-long drama, she submitted her resignation to the District Collector connected Sunday, obviating the request for the motion. She, however, flayed the ruling confederation of resorting to harassment of her enactment corporators, including women, and announced to stay successful interaction with the public.
