TRS poaches TDP leaders with tickets for next polls

The efforts of TRS to lure leaders from other parties have resulted in a range of demands including assurance of a ticket to contest the next Assembly or Parliament elections. According to party sources, the very first demand from these leaders is that they should be given TRS ticket in their respective constituencies.In certain cases,TRS is left with no option but to agree to this demand,which may cause some dissent in its rank and file in such places.

TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao has offered the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha seat,which he won in 2009 election,to P Jitender Reddy,a strong TDP leader in Mahbubnagar district.Reddy has agreed to quit TDP and join TRS on December 22. During the final talks on Sunday,Rao assured Reddy that he would not contest from Mahbubnagar as MP in the next election and the seat would be given to him.
Asked why he had decided to join TRS,Reddy said that that all these days he was feeling as if he was in a rented house. He said he was not happy with the two-eye policy of TDP.

Reddy,who a former MP and BJP leader,joined the TDP before 2009 elections and unsuccessfully contested from Chevella Parliament constituency.He was defeated in the election by union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy. Along with Reddy,another TDP leader Jagadishwar Rao is also joining TRS.Rao was defeated from Kollapur Assembly constituency in the last election.

Among others who are set to join TRS are Krishnamohan Reddy from Gadwal Assembly constituency in Mahbubnagar district, G Chinnapa Reddy from Nagarjuna Sagar in Nalgonda district,Pratap Reddy from Gajwel and A Narotham from Zaheerabad in Medak district.
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UPA-IIs honeymoon ended swiftly: US cable


New Delhi: A US embassy cable said that while America has a true partner in the current Indian government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,its capacities were limited as despite a strong mandate in 2009,it got off the blocks slowly and its honeymoon ended swiftly. In an assessment that is not at much variance with domestic comentators and seems more relevant now,the cable said that even though it had shed its Left supporters,the government grew less confident after Singhs July 2009 Sharm el-Sheikh meeting with Pakistan PM Yousuf Gilani.The cable dated February 11,2010,meant to be a scene setter for senior US leader John Kerry,said the Sharm el-Sheikh debacle rallied Singhs otherwise disjointed political opponents,while reminding the PM about his contraints despite his mandate.The tentativeness of the government was again on display during the winter session of Parliament,as the unruly Opposition united over populist demands and sidelined the civil nuclear liability legislation and the long awaited financial sector liberalisation.The government was similarly on the defensive over the Telangana demand and bowed to political pressure to set up a committee at the end of 2009.
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