Drawing attention recently, senior YSRCP leader Mudragada Padmanabham has finally gone for a name change and is assumed to be Padmanabha Reddy. This is after the flop performance in the Assembly elections which he was tasked to ensure that the Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan was defeated.
During the election campaign, Padmanabham had made similar claims that he would defeat Kalyan in the Pithapuram constituency. However, the septuagenarian leader has now dropped the ‘Ban’ part of his name following Kalyan’s emergence as the constituency’s winner.
When asked why he had changed his name, Reddy said,
“Nobody forced me to change the name; I changed it on my own.”
But he insisted that his troubles came from Kalyan and the abuse and foul-mouthed messages that he had been receiving from the actor’s fans online.
His words were directed to the media as he stated, “The youth who love you (Kalyan) are constantly sending rude messages; even though I disagree with this as a signal of love offering abuses to all, do something…get rid of us all (family members).
Padmanabha Reddy, a Reddy community politico turned Kapu, was a former minister who demanded Kapu’s reservation and switched to YSRCP a few months before these elections.
The name change has generated a topic within the political agitation sphere, with observers still following the emerging shifts in relations between the YSRCP and Janasena parties after the assembly elections.
