Brother backing  for Silpa in YSRC for Nandyal poll 

TDP says it’s not much bothered about Chakrapani Reddy’s exit from the party 
Brother backing  for Silpa in YSRC for Nandyal poll 
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KURNOOL: TDP Kurnool district president and MLC Silpa Chakrapani Reddy on Wednesday crossed the Rubicon and joined the YSRC, lending support to his brother Silpa Mohan Reddy who is the YSRC nominee for Nandyal Assembly seat for which by-election would be held on August 23.
Despite the desperate attempts by the Telugu Desam Party to hold him back, Chakrapani Reddy has proved that blood is thicker than water and wanted to be on his brother’s side when the day of reckoning arrives.


After discussing with his party workers, Chakrapani Reddy announced that he was breaking ranks with the TDP and was moving over to the YSRC. Chakrapani Reddy later sent his resignation letter to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Speaking to media persons afterwards, Chakrapani Reddy said that he had quit the Telugu Desam Party after the humiliation faced by him despite serving the party selflessly. 
“Tourism Minister Bhuma Akhila Priya and other TDP leaders are making baseless allegations against me,” he said.


Akhila Priya and others, who sold themselves out to the TDP, were casting aspersions on the character of his brother Mohan Reddy, he said and pointed out that his brother has a clean record in public life and that if anyone tried to tarnish his image, he would not tolerate it.He said that he along with his cadre would go to Hyderabad and meet Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at his Lotus Pond residence before joining the party. 


“The countdown has begun for Akhila Priya and not for my brother. I will show them what Chakrapani Reddy is,” he said, adding: “I will gift Nandyal seat to Jagan Mohan Reddy.”Meanwhile, TDP leaders said they were not much bothered about the exit of Chakrapani Reddy form their party and even described it as a “good riddance.”  


TDP district president Somisetty Venkateswarlu said that Chakrapani Reddy’s exit will have no impact on the poll prospects of the TDP candidate. “People have understood the ‘big conspiracy’ of Silpa brothers. First Mohan Reddy left us and later his brother Chakrapani Reddy, with the intention of  wrecking the party. But their plan will not work out,” he said.  

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