Chandra Babu Naidu is known as the Chanukya of Telugu politics. Most of the people comment that he kept Jr.NTR away from TDP, to give way for Nara Lokesh to take up the reigns. Looks like YSRC is applying Chandra Babu Naidu’s logic to gain dominance.
It is known that the Gajapathi Rajus were dominating the Vizianagaram region from the past several decades. Ashok Gajapathi Raju won the elections 6 terms in Vizianagaram. In 2019 elections, Ashok Gajapathi Raju and TDP introduced Aditi Vijayalakshmi Gajapathi Raju into the attack but YSRC candidate Kolagatla Veerabadhra Swamy won the seat.
Even though the seat went out of the Gajapathi Rajus hands, they still hold good fame in the people and Ashok Gajapathi Raju is the chairman of Maharaja Alak Narayan Society of Arts and Science (MANSAS) which is an educational trust which runs several developmental activities.
To completely push TDP out of the way, YSRC now removed Ashok Gajapathi Raju from the position and gave the reigns to Sanchaita who is the daughter of Anand Gajapathi Raju, brother of Ashok Gajapathi Raju. Sanchaita is the spokesperson for BJP’s Delhi unit. With this step, no traces of TDP will be seen in Vizianagaram and there is a small way for YSRC to approach BJP for support in future.