N Chandrababu Naidu has got trapped in his own web of national politics for the second time as UNPA chairman Mulayam Singh treads on a route which led Naidu on a disastrous journey.
Emmissaries fail to persuade Mulayam
HYDERABAD: UNPA convenor and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu has got trapped in his own web of national politics for the second time as UNPA chairman Mulayam Singh treads on a route which led Naidu on a disastrous journey with the NDA and BJP, in his stint as convenor of the United Front government between 1998 and 1999.
After the Samajwadi Party (SP) ignored his emissaries’ appeal to stay away from the Congress, Naidu is cutting short his Mee Kosam Yatra and will rush to Delhi to try and salvage the situation.
Naidu’s emissaries K Yerran Naidu and Rajya Sabha MP Kambhampati Rammohan Rao met SP leaders on Monday to defuse the situation. They also called on CPI(M) and CPI leaders. Samajwadi troubleshooter Amar Singh made it clear to them that Mulayam’s strategy was more UP-centric. “If the need arises the SP may even walk out of the UNPA,” he hinted. Phone calls and appeals by UNPA partners — National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah and INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala — went unheeded.
“Mulayam refused to receive calls from Abdullah, but told Chautala he had no alternatives in UP politics,” said a senior TDP leader.
An emergency UNPA meeting is scheduled for July 4 to take stock of the situation after the SP’s imminent exit.
Party sources said Yerran Naidu held a prolonged debate with Mulayam in Delhi. “Our talks failed to change Mulayam’s mind. Even when we were at his residence, he received several calls from Congress leaders,” said a senior TDP leader.
Asked what Chandrababu Naidu’s visit could achieve now, TDP sources said: “We will try another round of talks with Mulayam Singh. If this fails, we will have to chose another leader probably also from the north.”
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