KE Prabhakar back in TDP, to hold forte in Dhone

[Anta Assamey]

Almost a year after announcing his resignation from Telugu Desam Party, former minister and state legislative council member K E Prabhakar has declared that he was still continuing in the party.

Prabhakar, who sent his resignation letter to TDP president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in March 2020, told reporters on Tuesday that his resignation had not been accepted even now and so, he would continue in the TDP.

Prabhakar said he had a talk with the party president, who requested him to continue in the party.

“I have been appointed as party in-charge of Dhone assembly constituency as my brother K E Pratap is not interested in politics. I am prepared to fight the next elections from Dhone or Pathikonda or Aluru, wherever Naidu directs me to do,” he said.

“His family had some differences with Kotla family with regard to some seats in local body elections. But the high command has settled the issue,” he said.

Prabhakar, younger brother of former deputy chief minister K E Krishna Murthy, won from Dhone twice and had even served as a minister in Chandrababu Naidu cabinet. However, he lost the elections in 2014, Naidu made him an MLC.

However, the entry of Kotla family in the TDP created disturbance in the KE family. There were reports that K E Krishna Murthy and Prabhakar would defect to the YSRC before 2019 elections, but it did not happen.

In March 2020, Prabhakar announced his resignation from the primary membership of the TDP.

“There is no future for the party. It is not in a position to give party tickets to my followers in the mandal parishad, zilla parishad and Kurnool municipal corporation elections,” he said then.

Prabhakar alleged that the party had not been giving any recognition to him after the elections.

“There is no point in continuing in the TDP where my word doesn’t prevail. I will soon announce which party I would join,” he said.

However, he did not get any invitation from the YSRC. He even tried to join the BJP, but it did not happen. So, he remained low profile, till he got the invitation from Naidu to stay back in the party.