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N Chandrababu Naidu and YS Jagan Reddy escalated “resort politics” by moving corporators to Malaysia and Sri Lanka ahead of a no-confidence motion against Visakhapatnam Mayor Kumari.
In GVMC, the YSRCP has 59 of the 98 seats while TDP has 29 corporators and its ally Jana Sena Party (JSP) has three seats.
Indians are familiar with “resort politics”, where parties hold their MLAs at expensive hotels to prevent them from being poached by rival sides ahead of crucial votes.
However, two of India’s richest politicians– N Chandrababu Naidu and YS Jagan Reddy– took “resort politics” to a new level by shifting their corporators to holiday destinations of Malaysia and Sri Lanka ahead of no-confidence motion against Visakhapatnam Mayor Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari on April 19.
Reddy’s party YSRCP, which was ousted from power in the state last year, currently runs the Greater Vizag Municipal Corporation (GVMC). Apart from Kumari, Deputy Mayors J Sridhar and K Satish also belong to the YSRCP. However, there is a buzz that the TDP-led alliance might take over the GVMC. After Naidu returned as the CM, several YSRCP leaders have switched to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). In the wake of this, TDP corporators in the GVMC submitted a no-confidence motion against Kumari on March 22.
YSRCP corporators, who were camping earlier in Karnataka, have been shifted to Sri Lanka
while TDP had moved its flock from Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district to Malaysia.
“Twenty-five TDP corporators from Vishakapatnam went to Malaysia on a casual trip with families. I will also join them soon,” a TDP corporator told PTI on Friday.
The TDP leader further said that the corporators were sent to avoid pressure and influence by the YSR Congress Party. Everyone is firm in their decision, the TDP corporator said. A TDP source said that the party would reimburse all the expenses of the travel and accommodation there.
Visakhapatnam Corporation Math
In GVMC, the YSRCP has 59 of the 98 seats while TDP has 29 corporators and its ally Jana Sena Party (JSP) has three seats. The BJP, the CPI, and the CPI(M) have one corporator each.
As many as 25 YSRCP corporators have joined the TDP-led NDA so far, taking the alliance’s tally to 65-70 corporators. The TDP needs 74 votes to win the no-confidence motion.
The NDA won all seven assembly seats in Visakhapatnam in 2024 assembly polls.
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Visakhapatnam, India, India
