Brushing aside a strong pitch from Revanth Reddy for Malkajgiri, Chandrababu Naidu gave the Malkajgiri MP ticket to an outsider unconnected to TDP cadre. The ticket to Telangana native Malla Reddy, an educationalist, brings back memories of TDP handing over the Kukatpally ticket to TRS in 2009 and letting Jayaprakash Narayan sail through when he swept up the settlers votes and got 56,000 votes compared to TRS candidate’s 26,000 votes. TDP now played the same card and expects the settlers to vote for JP instead of Malla Reddy. This wouldn’t have been the case if Revanth was in fray. He would have took the TDP vote with himself as he has been a starch loyalist to TDP for years. He ...

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