Nellore Mayor to join TDP in 3 days

THE HINDU 06/08/2014, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. Nellore Mayor Abdul Aiziz is said to have decided to quit YSR Congress Party and join Telugu Desam Party soon.

The decks have been cleared for Mayor Abdul Aziz to officially join the Telugu Desam Party in the presence of the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Hyderabad on Sunday or Monday.

The mayors followers have started making arrangements for this with efforts being made to get the support of as many corporators as possible. They are expecting support from a sizeable group of corporators, who want to sail with the ruling party for the sake of ushering in development in their respective divisions.

Mr. Aziz has got considerable support from Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister P. Narayana in clearing all hurdles for his joining the ruling party. Now with the help of the TDP leadership, the mayor is making moves to convince the YSR Congress corporators to win them over to his side.

Meanwhile, the YSRC city leadership has started damage control exercise by ensuring that their party corporators are not disturbed in this crucial phase. At the time of the mayor election also, the party had to hold special camps outside the Nellore district to ensure unity among the party corporators.

On his part, Mr. Aziz said he had nothing against the YSRC central leadership except that they did not intervene to solve the differences when he made a special request for the same in the past.

He asserted that he wanted to make the best use of this chance to ensure proper development in the city as it was after 54 years that a minority candidate became the municipal corporation mayor here.

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Nellore Mayor to join TDP in 3 days