As per Gandhi Bhavan sources nearly 14 TDP, six each of TRS and YSRC MLAs have been touched by a special team of negotiators to urge them to join TDP .The team include retired IAS,Intelligence and also from veteran politicians who study the financial and political profile of the MLAs and MPs and make the approach. Some of them mayjoin YSRC if things become very hot and difficult for them to joiin Congress, they say
so far many MLAs and MPs are bargaining on 'prize money ' and party tickets . But high command made it clear that there would be no assurance on tickets but ready to make cash prizes as per agreement. Rahul Gandhi has alsomade it clear that ' buy them with money and not assurances on seats ' as he wanted to out his team of fresh MPs in parliament whose list he has already made after months of probing and social auditing, sources say. TRS MP Vijayshanti is one of them
In this scenario the congress, TDP,YSRC and TRS MLAs are keen to make quick bucks as there was no guarantee that they would be renominated in most of the parties as their own political future appeared bleak. ' We have alread bagged 22 MLAs and are only waiting for an opportunist time to strike . Rahul Gandhi will give the nod after T formation for the defection drama , they say.
