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Civic polls: rebel trouble in Telugu Desam, Congress

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TDP panel to look into Ayyanna Patrudu's outburst

HYDERABAD: Trouble over rebel candidates has surfaced in the Congress and Telugu Desam ahead of the crucial elections to the Municipal Corporations of Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry forcing the leadership of both the parties to swing into action to contain the damage.

While the Telugu Desam has constituted a three-member committee following the outburst against the leadership by former Minister and party general secretary Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu in connection with the selection of candidates, the Congress leadership began persuading rebels to withdraw their nominations.

Alarmed by Mr. Patrudu's outburst, TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu convened an emergency meeting of the Polit Bureau at his residence where the issue was discussed and a decision to appoint the committee was taken. Senior leaders Y. Ramkrishnudu, M. Jagannnadham and K.E. Krishnamurthy are the members of the committee.

It is learnt that Mr. Naidu expressed serious concern over the intra-party feud in Visakhapatnam and felt that it would send wrong signals to the people.

He reportedly stated that something ought to be done to prevent its recurrence, as he had already warned TDP functionaries not to air their views publicly.

Meanwhile, APCC president K. Keshava Rao, Union Minister T. Subbarami Reddy and Commercial Taxes Minister K. Ramakrishna met at the residence of Dr. Rao to resolve the problem as rebels remained in the fray in several divisions of the Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry Corporations and Hindupur Municipality.

With only two days left for withdrawal of nominations and rebels remaining in the protest mode, the party leaders were huddled together in trying to pacify them.

Party sources said names of some candidates for a few wards might be changed in view of the strong resentment among the cadre.

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