TDP luring BJP with 22 assembly & 3 LS seats
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu does not give up easily in achieving whatever he wants be it in politics or personal life . The manner in which he is conducting the Samaikyandhra agitation proxy and also winning over the BJP despite keeping them away for ten years since 2004 speaks a lot for his political chicanery .
Soon after his Delhi trip and discussions with BJP leaders at Delhi , Naidu had sent them a document on how the BJP-TDP combine could do well in the 2014 elections and beat the Congress, TRS and YSRC in both parliament and assembly polls. The TDP draft report says BJP could win 2 parliament and 16 assembly seats in Telangana and 1 Parliament and 14 assembly seats in Seemandhra and partnership in NDA .The report however has been rejected by the state BJP leaders who contend that with TDP the party will be loosing not only BC votes but also dalit votes in both the regions . ' BJP allaince will save the TDP from being routed in Telagnana ' says the report said
So the BJP national leadership is still weighing the pros and cons of data-aligning with the TDP in the state and also whether they could trust Chandababu Naidu . They have sent the TDP report to the state BJP leaders and sought their opinion . But the TDP is confident that with the M Venkaiah Naidu in their camp BJP will concede and data-align . 'TDP needs BJP more than us and has no where to go 'BJP leader Sushma Swaraj (who does not see eye to eye with Venkaiah) advised state president Kishan Reddy . Swaraj holds Venkaiah responsible for the Yediyurappa debacle in Karnataka which ruined the BJP's first government in south .