Hyderabad, Jan 21 : The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has conveyed to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) that it was ready to part with only nine Lok Sabha and 42 assembly seats as part of the electoral tie-up in Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, too, will be part of the package being offered to the TRS, TDP sources said today.
Andhra has 42 Lok Sabha and 294 Assembly seats.
CPI and the CPM reportedly took the initiative and mediated between the TRS and the TDP to ensure that the 'Grand Alliance' did not get scuttled at this critical stage.
The Left leaders conferred with TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu here tonight and discussed the situation arising out of the stalemate over seat-sharing between the TRS and the TDP.
Naidu reportedly told the Left leaders that it would be "extremely difficult" for them to concede more number of Lok Sabha seats to the TRS since the TDP too was a formidable force in the Telangana region.
"We too have a role to play at the national level and obviously we need more MPs," Naidu reportedly observed.
It is now expected that the TRS will settle for this bargain and join the Grand Alliance of TDP-CPI-CPM. The alliance will formally be announced only towards the end of this month when Naidu returns from his tour of north coastal Andhra that begins on Thursday, TDP sources said.
Though a formal announcement on TRS joining the alliance was supposed to be made today, the pro-Telangana party deferred its decision, saying "more clarity" was required on various issues. At one point during the day-long political developments, TRS leaders sought to convey that they would face the polls independently without any alliance if need arose.
"We will certainly like to have a tie-up with parties that have a clear stand on Telangana. Our basic and ultimate objective is to achieve separate statehood for the region," TRS MLA T Harish Rao and general secretary K T Rama Rao said.
On his part, Naidu asked his party rank and file to be ready for "sacrifices" as their main goal was to trounce the ruling Congress.
"We have to forge alliances with other parties to achieve our goal. So, sacrifices are inevitable," the former chief minister told the party cadre today.
Assembly elections are due in Andhra Pradesh along with Lok Sabha polls
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