Thota Narasimham for TDP

 

 

 

Former Congress minister Thota Narasimham joined the Telugu Desam Party today. A Kapu leader from East Godavari district he joined the TDP in the presence of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu. He is the sixth minister from the Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Cabinet to have quit the Congress .

 

Another former colleague of Kiran, D L Ravindra Reddy of Kadapa district, also met Chandrababu here today but there is no official confirmation as yet. Meanwhile, the senior-most Congress legislator J C Diwakar Reddy of Anantapuram district is also set to join the TDP on March 23rd , but there is stiff opposition from within  the TDP party cadre as to how they were treated  by the Congress in Tadipatri and  death of party workers in the faction violence which was prevalent  there. Another person Paritala Sunitha wife of slain leader Paritala Ravi also is said to have expressed her dissent about the JC brothers joining the party.