BJP cadre may jeopardise TD chances

hyderabad: if the mood among the city bjp workers is any indication, the tdp might face an uphill task in the mch elections, particularly for the mayor's post. upset with the tdp for trying to force on them several 'unwinnable wards' in the old city, the bjp cadres are openly saying that they would not work for the victory of the tdp candidates. it is learnt that the tdp is reluctant to share wards in the non-old city areas with the bjp.as per the seat sharing agreement, the tdp is to get 55 wards and the mayor seat and the bjp 45 divisions.the bjp workers and leaders contend that this would effectively reduce the party's chances to win 'decent number of wards'.also, the party workers are upset for leaving out city bjp president ch ramachandra reddy from the talks with the tdp so far. the bjp is represented by mlas k laxman and n indrasena reddy, former city unit president karunakar and union minister bandaru dattatreya.the tdp on the other hand, has involved its city leaders in the talks. the talks between the two parties on wards' division got stuck in three assembly constituencies -khairatabad, sanathanagar and secunderabad.also both the parties want the saidabad ward in malakpet constituency.the bjp is not getting a fair deal. if the tdp refuses to give wards of our choice, the cadre will not work for its mayoral candidate, a senior bjp leader said. among the wards in old city the bjp is likely to get, it is confident of winning only from gowlipura and mehdipatnam. the tdp leaders are not aware of the number of minority votes and what their choice will be. it is very difficult to win the mayoral candidate with trs, tss, mim, mbt and congress in the race, another bjp leader said. the bjp leaders said that the tdp was even refusing to give the wards such as saidabad which was earlier won by the bjp. local mlas sripathi rajeshwar, k vijayarama rao and talasani srinivas yadav are also not willing to surrender more seats to the bjp in the constituencies represented by them.