TDP to draw 2024 road map during Mahanadu

Amaravati: The TDP is likely to finalise its strategy for the 2024 elections during Mahanadu, the party’s annual conclave which is scheduled to be held in Rajahmundry on May 27 and 28. Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu may make some major announcements during the two-day meeting. Sources said some disgruntled leaders of the ruling YSRCP will join the TDP during its annual conclave.
The party’s senior leaders have been entrusted with the task to negotiate with the ‘sidelined’ ruling party leaders and bring them into TDP.Naidu is said to have decided to take only a few identified leaders into the party and has told senior leaders be careful during the negotiations and not promise tickets to those coming into the party.
Former minister and suspended YSRCP legislator Anam Ramanarayaan Reddy and Nellore rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy are expected to formally join the TDP during the Mahanadu. Two more former legislators associated with the ruling party are also likely to join. A sitting legislator from Nellore district, who is not in the good books of chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, is said to have made up his mind to quit the party. A few constituency in-charges of the YSRCP, who are likely to be replaced by new faces in the coming days, have also started negotiations with the TDP.
“As Mahanadu is being held just a year ahead of the next elections, it would be utilised to put the party machinery on election mode. The joining of a few leaders from YSRCP has been planned to shore up the energies of party cadres,” said five-time legislator and senior TDP leader Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar. He claimed that “at least 30-40 ruling party legislators” are keenly waiting for the green signal from Naidu to jump ship but the party supremo is playing it safe. “People have made up their mind to defeat this government. We will take all those who can serve people better,” added Narendra.
The party’s decision to hold its annual conclave in Kapu heartland Rajahmundry is also a strategic move amidst speculation about an alliance with Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena. Naidu’s visit to the Godavari districts in the last few days and his interactions with farmers of rain-hit areas have evoked good response, a TDP leader said.