Despite his best efforts to obtain an MP or an MLA ticket either from the TDP or YSRC, former minister and Penamaluru MLA Kolusu Parthasarathy has failed to make any headway. With this, the future of the two-time MLA is hanging in balance.
Like many of his colleagues in the Congress in Seemandhra, he too has decided to bid adieu to the party and join any other which guarantees his political future. As he saw TDP and YSRC as strong parties, he made his best efforts to join any of them to contest for the Machilipatnam Lok Sabha seat.
When he received no assurance from both the parties on MP ticket, he changed his mind and tried for TDP MLA ticket to contest for the Machilipatnam Assembly constituency. However, he was not lucky enough in this attempt too as the TDP is of the view that he does not enjoy the public support. Following this, Parthasarathy has again knocked at the door of YSRC and urged it to allot him the ticket for Penamaluru Assembly constituency.
“He is yet to get any response from YSRC. However, N Raghuveera Reddy, who assumed charge as the new PCC chief for residuary Andhra Pradesh, had phoned him and asked him to stay in the Congress,” a follower of Parthasarathy said.
Meanwhile, Parthasarathy held a meeting with his supporters at Vuyyur Monday and discussed the future political strategy with them. He was not available for comment when Express tried to contact him over the phone.
Parthasarathy, who belongs to the Yadava community, first entered electoral politics in 2001 byelections as Congress nominee following the death of the then Vuyyuru MLA Anne Babu Rao. He was defeated by TDP candidate Anne Vijayalakshmi, the widow of Babu Rao, by over 16,000 votes.
He was first elected to the Assembly in 2004 defeating TDP candidate Chalasani Venkateswara Rao alias Pandu by a margin of 6,314 votes. But in the last elections (2009), he won by a slender margin of 200 votes against the same rival.