Anantapur: Who next? Rumours this time is that Uravakonda MLA Y Visweswar Reddy is all set to defect to the Telugu Desam. A strong leader in Anantapur district, he had been elected as YSR Congress MLA from Uravakonda, against the claims of his faction rival Payyavula Kesav in the 2014 assembly polls.
He played a lead role in student movement as a leftist. The Telugu Desam high command has offered an MLC seat for Payyavula Kesav. As Kadiri MLA Attar Chand Bhasha defected to TD a week ago, the only legislator for the YSRC party is Visweswar Reddy, and he is being wooed by a few sections including some TD leaders who had differences with Kesav.
Visweswar Reddy lambasted TD leaders for playing a mind game. “I am not such a person with unhealthy political ethics. Nobody can purchase me,” he said.
