Internal feud in TDP comes to fore at civic body meeting

Vuyyuru: Protesting against municipal chairman Jampana Purnachandra Rao not quitting the post in favour of minorities as orally agreed upon, eight TDP councilors, three co-option members on Tuesday staged a walk out of the municipal council meeting bringing to the internal feuds in the TDP to the fore.

The meeting continued as it had the necessary quorum.
Municipal vice-chairman Tummala Srinivasa Babu, councillors Abdul Khaddus, Sheikh Khaleel, Razia Sultana, Jareena Begum, Thota Jyoti, V Sudharani and Tungala Padma and co-option members Jampana Gurunadha Rao, Abdul Nazir and Sarita staged a walk out immediately after the municipal commissioner Kalibabu’s address to the House.

They served a dissent notice indicating their opposition to four issues on the agenda prior to the walk-out.

Later, talking to the media, they attributed the walk out to the municipal chairman’s failure to relinquish the chair as agreed earlier. They pointed out that the municipal chairman agreed to quit the post on January 2 this year in the presence of the local MP, MLA and MLC.

While one group in the TDP tried to put the municipal chairman in a spot by staging a walk out, some of the members begged to differ and shocked the rival group by signing the minutes’ book.

They are Banavattu Kalyani, Putti Rojamani and Korada Venkata Lakshmi. Besides the trio, YSRCP floor leader Vangaveeti Srinivasa Prasad, councillors Abdul Raheem, S Sureshbabu, Bobbili Nagaraju, Gunja Rambabu, Penumudi Vani and Nadiminti Lakshmi constituted the quorum requirements.

As a result, the meeting was held as usual and adopted several resolutions.
Following a dissent note served on a real estate development issue in the sixth ward, the chairman did not approve of item number 18 listed on the agenda.

The YSRCP floor leader went on record stating that playing politics is not the YSRCP priority, but the people’s issues.
He denied that YSRCP has anything to do with the TDP power struggle.