Raju has No Choice but to Accept CBN's Offer

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One day after formally joining the telugu desam party at the party's president, former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu's public gathering in narasapuram, Kanumuru raghu Ramakrishna Raju, a sitting member of parliament, was given the party ticket from the Undi assembly constituency.
 
On Saturday, the tdp president declared Raju's bid for the Undi assembly seat, replacing the party's initial nominee, incumbent mla Manthena Venkata Rama Raju. Before declaring the dissident MP's identity, Naidu offered Rama Raju a high-ranking position in the TDP's future and psychologically prepared him to resign from the seat. It seems that Rama Raju and raghu Ramakrishna Raju conversed several times.
 
Rama Raju indicated shortly after the tdp announced raghu Ramakrishna Raju's nomination for the Undi seat that he would fully back the mp in his bid to run as an MLA. The narasapuram mp had been attempting to secure a ticket from any of the three national democratic alliance partners—TDP, Jana Sena, and the BJP—from the same constituency for the upcoming general elections. On february 24, she resigned from the congress PARTY' target='_blank' title='ysr congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW">ysr congress party, having rebelled against the party's president and chief minister, Y S jagan Mohan Reddy, over the previous four and a half years.
 
Bhupatiraju Srinivasa Varma, the state general secretary of the bjp, was given the seat as part of the coalition parties' agreement to share seats. A displeased In an effort to reclaim the seat from the bjp, Raju engaged in intensive lobbying with the tdp and had many meetings with Naidu.
 
In response, Naidu offered the bjp the seat in eluru Lok Sabha in return for the narasapuram seat; however, the bjp leadership declined.
 
According to insiders, Raju is forced to accept Naidu's invitation to run for assembly from the Undi assembly constituency.
 
 


 


 

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