The Nava Telangana party led by T Devender Goud has decided to make its first move towards possible merger with PRP.
The party has decided to take shelter under the PRP umbrella and contest the elections on the symbol of PRP.
In an informal chat with newsmen on Tuesday, Goud said that his party and PRP had forged an alliance and felt that that it would be advantageous to contest the elections on a common symbol. This would help the NTP more he said as they can hold joint campaigns and can reduce the confusion among voters if they have one common symbol.
Both NTP and PRP are registered parties. Once it qualifies to be known as a recognised party by the EC, it can be allotted an election symbol. He recalled a precedent when in 1983 Sanjay Vichar Manch led by Maneka Gandhi fought election in the state with the support of TDP using its election symbol -Cycle.
PRP is trying to get a common election symbol for the party candidates during the 2009 elections. But if it fails in its attempt then the two registered parties will have to choose from the 59 free symbols, Goud said. Meanwhile, it appears that the NTP is still not able to digest about TRS joining the TDP-Left grand alliance
. Party convener E Peddi Reddy alleged that TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao had decided to go with grand alliance to benefit his family members and not out of concern for the cause for which he had floated a political party.
