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TDP feels the heat in Anantapur

Staff Reporter

Partymen's failure to field candidate from 35th division irks Naidu

ANANTAPUR: The pressure tactics of the ruling Congress in the district, particularly in Anantapur Corporation and the Dharmavaram Municipality, are already telling on the TDP. The unanimous election of M. Venkateswara Chowdary of the Congress from 35th division in Anantapur has given a rude jolt to the TDP.

The TDP supremo, N. Chandrababu Naidu, is learnt to have taken the district leadership of the party to task for its failure to put up a candidate in the division. The district president of the party, V. Hanumantharaya Chowdary, however, claimed that a communication gap between the party and two aspirants from the division had led to the unexpected situation.

TDP's folly

But, the news making the rounds about the TDP folly is that the Congress candidate of the 35th division had successfully `managed' the two TDP aspirants against filing nomination papers.

Similarly, in the Dharmavaram Municipality, all TDP candidates are stated to have been lodged in Venkatapuram, the native place of Penukonda legislator, Paritala Sunita, for "protecting'' them from the Congress.

`Unanimous' election

Intense efforts are also stated to be on in Anantapur to make the Congress candidates for 4th and 13th divisions also unanimous by "winning'' over their TDP rivals.

Meanwhile, the rejection of rivals' nomination papers enabled unanimous election of another three councillors, two belonging to the Congress and one from the CPI, in the district. In Kadiri, the Congress candidate for 16th ward, Eeswarappa, was the lone candidate left of the rejection of papers of Nazeer Ahmed of the TDP due to misleading information provided in the declaration on his properties. In Tadipatri, Venkatramudu of the Congress was the lone candidate left in 21st ward, after the nomination papers of D. Madar of TDP were rejected on the grounds of having more number of children than specified. In Guntakal too, the CPI's B. Laxmi was the lone candidate left for 3rd ward after the two other candidates' papers were rejected on similar grounds.

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