TRS leader to support TDP Nandamuri Suhasini

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader and Kukatpally Assembly constituency incharge Gottimukkala Padma Rao, met AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at his residence in Undavalli on Tuesday.  He will formally join TDP on Wednesday.He was learnt to have expressed his desire to join the TDP, besides campaigning for the victory of Nandamuri Suhasini, fielded as the TDP candidate from Kukatpally.

Padma Rao unsuccessfully contested as an MLA from Kukatpally in 2014 elections against the then TDP candidate Madhavaram Krishna Rao. However, with the latter joining the TRS and getting the ticket to contest on the car symbol, the former felt he was being isolated by the party leadership and resigned from the TRS.