VISAKHAPATNAM: Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu will hold a meeting with the committee formed to select the party's candidate for the Visakha-I by-electionon Friday.

The district co-ordination committee and the party's urban district unit too will take part.

Mr. Naidu would review the reports submitted by the three committees and the party's candidate for the by-election might be announced after the meeting or later, TDP senior leaderand member of the five-man committee of observers to select the candidate, Yenamala Ramakrishnudu, said here on Thursday.

However, he did not indicate the party's criteria for selecting the candidate. "Mr. Naidu will take into consideration all aspects decide the candidate," he said.

The TDP leader expressed the confidence that the party would win the by-election and wanted the Election Commission to ensure free and fair poll like in Bihar since the Congress resorted to several irregularities during the municipal and co-operative elections.

Five-member panel

Earlier, the five-member committee consisting of Mr. Ramakrishnudu, P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Mullapudi Renuka, N. China Rajappa and Boddu Bhaskara Rao, held a meeting with the members of the party's urban unit.

The committee individually met the members of the urban unit, several other committees, senior leaders and members of the co-ordination committee.

Mr. Ramakrishnudu said that the high command had sent the committee to bring out consensus regarding the candidate. There might be some minor differences among the members but once the high command announced the candidate, all would work for the success of the party, he added.

Mr. Ashok Gajapathi Raju recalled that the late N.T. Rama Rao inducted youth like him in the party so that they could serve the party over a long time. The same practice might be adopted now also.

He wanted the party leaders and cadre to explain to the people the failures of the Congress during the election campaign.

Also present were the party vice-president, M.V.V.S. Murthi, MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao, rural unit president Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy, former MLAs, S.A. Rehaman, R.S.D.P.A.N. Raju and Palla Simhachalam, urban unit president, Zaheer Ahmed, and former urban unit president, M. Sundaram Patrudu.

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