HYDERABAD: TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh, who has almost announced ceasefire with the TRS government in the state by stopping his “Twitter” war against it, seems to have decided to keep his political activities to AP for now.
Freshly launched TDP’s biennial membership enrolment drive in TS and AP has given enough indications to the party workers in this regard.
The very absence of Lokesh at NTR Bhavan during the launching of the drive on Tuesday, has become a point of discussion.
“Though he is the party’s national general secretary, Lokesh preferred to take part in the party membership drive programme in AP, instead of TS. This itself is an indication that our Chinnababu wants to focus his attention on party affairs in AP,” one of the party veteran from TS said.
Another leader felt, “When our party supremo and AP chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was launching the party membership drive in Guntur, Lokesh should have started the similar exercise here in the capacity of national general secretary. But, his preference to take part in the AP TDP’s membership drive is a clear indication that he is more concerned about party activities in AP.”
Even ten months after his failure to make his party get respectable seats in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls held last February, Lokesh is nowadays rarely seen at the NTR Bhavan, TDP’s Telangana headquarters. Like his father Chandrababu Naidu, the politico is spending much of his time in AP.
The Stanford-educated politico has almost stopped hurling choicest fireworks at the TRS government from the social networking site Twitter.
Interestingly, the entire exercise of membership drive in both AP and TS is being monitored by Lokesh. The membership drive is being carried out online by the party with the help of tablets and laptops for enrolling members.
“In fact, during the earlier membership drive undertaken in 2014, Lokesh started the online drive by doing away with the paper receipt books at NTR Bhavan here. But, this time he was not present here,” a member of the TDP students’ wing, Telugu Nadu Student Federation, said.