Disappointment writ large on the face of TDP’s Nellore cadre as Mahanadu goes hybrid

Telugu Desam Party’s Sri Potti Sri Ramulu (SPSR) Nellore territory unit, which was each acceptable to big the prestigious yearly conclave ‘Mahanadu’, is successful for superior disappointment with the precocious command’s determination to marque it a hydrid gathering from Mangalagiri headquarters.

This ‘austerity measure’ was termed arsenic successful tune with the telephone fixed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Four decades wait

The leaders and cadre were initially elated arsenic the territory portion got the archetypal ever accidental to big the conscionable successful the 4 decades of the party’s formation, but the latest determination turned retired to beryllium the proverbial ‘slip betwixt the cupful and the lip’.

Over the past fortnight, the sprawling IFFCO Kisan SEZ compound successful Kovur constituency of Nellore district, chosen arsenic the venue for hosting the three-day event, was whirring with the dependable of dense machinery and tillers meant for onshore filling and levelling, earlier the full enactment was called off.

Even the party’s State president Palla Srinivasa Rao closeted successful the first-ever gathering held past week with the thirteen committees formed to look aft reception, accommodation, food, transportation, nationalist relations etc.

Ministers Ponguru Narayana and Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, Member of Parliament Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, his spouse and section legislator Vemireddy Prashanthi Reddy, MLAs Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy, Kakarla Suresh, S. Chandramohan Reddy, D. Krishna Reddy, MLC and TDP territory enactment president Beedha Ravichandra, State spokesperson Kotamreddy Giridhar Reddy and Deputy Mayor P. Roopkumar Yadav presented a representation of unity to behaviour the lawsuit connected a expansive scale, seemingly to get into the bully books of the precocious command.

A whopping 500 acres were earmarked for the event, with 200 acres for the main normal and eating section. “Similarly, 200 acres were planned connected either broadside of the venue to make 2 parking tons of 100 acres each connected the northbound and the southbound to accommodate the buses, cars and tractors”, says Mr. Giridhar Reddy.

While the archetypal 2 days volition person gathering of party’s State level representatives and the 266 Mahanadu committee members, the turnout connected the 3rd time was projected astatine 5 to 7 lakh visitors from crossed the 2 Telugu states and hence the standard of development.

However, the party’s telephone came arsenic a thunderbolt and the sapped the enthusiasm. Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy said the decision, though disheartening, was taken successful the close earnest.

While pacifying the cadre by promising to bring Mr. Chandrababu Naidu for a mega nationalist gathering successful Kovur, Ms. Prashanthi Reddy urged the precocious bid to springiness the accidental to Nellore territory to big Mahanadu 2027.