VIJAYAWADA: Telugu Desam cleared the air on its Mayor candidate in the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) elections by announcing Kesineni Swetha as their nominee. Incidentally, Swetha is the daughter of Vijayawada MP, Kesineni Srinivas, alias Nani, who is presently campaigning for the success of TD candidates.
The party’s State president Kinjarapu Atchannaidu made the announcement and asked the cadre to work together to ensure TD victory.
The TD in Vijayawada city was earlier divided into two groups with one headed by Nani and another by MLC Buddha Venkanna and Nagul Meera.
The party high command made Nani the in-charge in the VMC elections. Recently, he changed the candidate in division 39 by giving the ticket to a migrant leader, K Siva Sarma, who recently joined TD from YSRC. There was another conflict when the division 34 candidate Kotteti Hanumantha Rao was replaced by a follower of Vangaveeti Radhakrishna.
The dissident leaders, furious that their…