Leaders of TDP and its alliance partners are anxiously waiting for vacant nominated posts in government departments. Some leaders are in discontent as even after two months of coming to power, still not a single post has been filled.
A month and a half ago, the TDP leadership had issued instructions to the party leaders that aspirants looking for nominated posts should submit their bio-data to the programs committee of the party office. With this, the programs committee is accepting bio data and applications from the leaders.
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Education Minister Nara Lokesh are said to be personally monitoring these applications and they have to finalise a list of probable names for nominated posts. Already, the chief minister obtained details about the vacancies of nominated posts from all the departments of General Administration in the first week of July.
Meanwhile, a formula of sharing nominated posts between alliance parties was already finalised. According to this formula, wherever sitting MLAs are there, in such constituencies TDP will take 60 percent of nominated posts, while Jana Sena and BJP will be given 30 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
In the constituencies represented by Jana Sena and BJP, those parties will take 60 percent of nominated posts, leaving the remaining posts to TDP and other parties.
In TDP several senior party leaders are also waiting for nominated posts. As most of them were unable to contest in the polls as the party preferred younger generation and also seats adjustments with Jana Sena and BJP, they are expecting priority in nominated posts.
Normally, senior leaders seek Rajya Sabha or MLC seats. But as there are no Rajya Sabha or MLC elections for the next two years, they are seeking nominated posts for the time being. There will be four Rajya Sabha vacancies only in 2026. Likewise, a huge number of MLC vacancies will come only in 2027.
Only four seats will be vacant in the Legislative Council next year. Among these are TDP senior leader Yanamala Ramakrishna along with Chikkala Ramachandra Rao, BT Naidu and P Ashok Babu.
In the grievances program held by Chandrababu Naidu at the party office on Saturday also, most of the applications he is receiving are said to be related to nominated posts. Particularly those who suffered during the YCP regime expecting some priority in nominated posts.