Gannavaram TDP MLA Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan, who joined YSRCP a year ago, is facing strong opposition from his rivals in the ruling party. Engaged in a triangular fight in YSRCP, the MLA is struggling to do justice to the people who elected him.
Vamsi is a popular leader in Gannavaram constituency. Because of this popularity, he could withstand the YSRCP wave and defeat party candidate Yarlagadda Venkata Rao. But with the defeat of TDP, he switched loyalty to the ruling party. However, since joining the YSRCP, he has been facing troubles from senior party leaders in the constituency Dutta Ramachandra Rao and Yarlagadda Venkata Rao. He has become a lame duck unable to take up any works in the constituency owing to pressure from these to rival leaders.
District ministers Kodali Nani and Perni Venkateswara Rao, who were instrumental in bringing Vamsi into YSRCP, too have proved helpless in sorting out his problems with party rivals. He is facing more heat in the party now as Ramachandra Rao and Venkata Rao, who have rivalry between them, joined hands against him. There have been some incidents in the district involving two groups which led to tense situations.
It is learnt that YSRCP leadership is not lending its ear to Vamsi to air his grievances. His followers rue that no one is listening to their leader. According to them, he tried to bring to the notice of the party leadership, particularly of party Krishna district in-charge Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, some incidents that have taken place in the constituency, but to no avail.
Under these circumstances, Vamsi is neither comfortable in the YSRCP nor able to leave it. Sources close to him say that fed up with this, he is even considering retirement from politics. But he is unable to do so in view of the trust and confidence that the people have reposed in him. Business ties and personal rapport with Kodali Nani, troubles created by the YSRCP government are said to have forced him to defect to the ruling party.
Soon after meeting YS Jagan Mohan Reddy last year, he called a press conference and launched a scathing attack on TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh. But this show of loyalty towards Jagan seems to have not yielded results. With this fight becoming a headache to the party leadership, even local leadership and YSRCP activists are not caring for the defected MLA. Now he is in a political limbo. Neither YSRCP nor TDP considers him their own. It is to be seen what will be his next step under these circumstances; sticking with YSRCP, returning to TDP or embracing BJP.
