Hyderabad: The TDP seems to be implementing operation Swagruha in a very calculated manner. As part of the move, the party hopes to bring back all the senior leaders who had quit the party before elections and are now disillusioned with PRP, sources said.
According to party sources, even the former home minister T Devender Goud and K Vidyadhar Rao who had switched over to PRP hoping to emerge as big leaders have been trying to build bridges with TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu during the last few days.
Naidu, who has been not so keen about Goud initially, now seems to have softened his attitude and is veering round the opinion that re-entry of Goud could be an asset for the party in view of the forthcoming GHMC elections.
Goud, who was considered to be a big-time leader, quit TDP and floated his own party called Nav Telangana party and having failed to attract more leaders and cadre from TDP and unable to run the outfit merged it with PRP. He contested from Malkajgiri Lok Sabha and Ibrahimpatnam assembly seat lost the polls from both places. Since then he has been sulking even in PRP and has not been very active.
Another senior leader K Vidyadhar Rao has also been inactive in Prajarajyam party and is understood to have sent feelers to TDP.
Two other leaders from north coastal, Tammineni Sitaram and K Kalavenkat Rao are also learnt to be considering home coming though both of them had officially denied making such moves.
It is also being said that former energy minister K Subbarayudu who had joined PRP just before the elections, is also under pressure from cadre to get back to TDP.
At a time when Congress party is alleged to be indulging in operation Akarsh and trying to lure its MLAs like Prasanna Kumar Reddy from Nellore district and harassing Kovvur MLA T V Rama Rao, TDP feels that if it takes back all those who left the party, it could send clear signals to the rank and file that it was the only alternative to Congress party and also cause political damage to PRP which it feels had marred its chances of coming to power.
In this situation, Naidu is understood to have given green signal for taking back if these leaders voluntarily want to come back to party fold.
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