Further compounding the mess that the grand alliance is faced with due to fighting over seats between the TDP and TRS, ‘big brother’ CPM
suddenly woke up on Thursday and demanded from TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu that it be given more seats than the CPI, a move that is being fiercely opposed by the so-called smaller member of the Left Front. While the CPI has settled for 16 assembly and four Lok Sabha seats, the CPM, which on Wednesday had made public the names of 20 assembly seats it wants to contest, is insisting that it be given 20 if the CPI is being given 16. Till Wednesday, Naidu had been saying that he would be able to give the two left parties 16 seats each and not more. With the CPM adamant on its stance, Naidu held a teleconference with CPM state secretary B V Raghavulu on Thursday and told him to come down on his demand as he was presently engaged in talks with the TRS over few seats that both the parties are claiming. The TDP chief reportedly offered the CPM 16 seats and reduce the seats being given to the CPI to 13. This, however, is being rejected by the CPI, which is insisting that it will not accept anything less than 16 assembly seats. After holding an emergency meeting on Thursday, CPI leaders K Narayana and K Ramakrishna spoke to Naidu over telephone and told him that he had offered them 16 seats which they had accepted and there was no question of climbing down from this position. Last heard, both sides decided to keep the talks going. CPI secretary K Narayana said that such hiccups in alliances were not new and this does not mean that the alliance had collapsed. “We will sort out the issue by Friday or Saturday. There is still time till March 30 to file nominations,” he said. While the CPM announced the 20 seats that it would contest, the CPI is yet to make public the seats it wants to contest. But the CPI is already locked in a row with the TRS on Husnabad for which the latter has named its candidate. CPI floor leader Chada Venkat Reddy is the sitting MLA from Husnabad and the party insists that the seat should be left for it.
suddenly woke up on Thursday and demanded from TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu that it be given more seats than the CPI, a move that is being fiercely opposed by the so-called smaller member of the Left Front. While the CPI has settled for 16 assembly and four Lok Sabha seats, the CPM, which on Wednesday had made public the names of 20 assembly seats it wants to contest, is insisting that it be given 20 if the CPI is being given 16. Till Wednesday, Naidu had been saying that he would be able to give the two left parties 16 seats each and not more. With the CPM adamant on its stance, Naidu held a teleconference with CPM state secretary B V Raghavulu on Thursday and told him to come down on his demand as he was presently engaged in talks with the TRS over few seats that both the parties are claiming. The TDP chief reportedly offered the CPM 16 seats and reduce the seats being given to the CPI to 13. This, however, is being rejected by the CPI, which is insisting that it will not accept anything less than 16 assembly seats. After holding an emergency meeting on Thursday, CPI leaders K Narayana and K Ramakrishna spoke to Naidu over telephone and told him that he had offered them 16 seats which they had accepted and there was no question of climbing down from this position. Last heard, both sides decided to keep the talks going. CPI secretary K Narayana said that such hiccups in alliances were not new and this does not mean that the alliance had collapsed. “We will sort out the issue by Friday or Saturday. There is still time till March 30 to file nominations,” he said. While the CPM announced the 20 seats that it would contest, the CPI is yet to make public the seats it wants to contest. But the CPI is already locked in a row with the TRS on Husnabad for which the latter has named its candidate. CPI floor leader Chada Venkat Reddy is the sitting MLA from Husnabad and the party insists that the seat should be left for it.
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