Krishnam Raju going back to BJP ?

bahubaliFormer Union minister and actor U.V. Krishnam Raju going to get back to active politics, acccording to political sources in the BJP.

Confirming this, a BJP leader suspected that his chances of getting a post are not bright because of his frequent change of loyalties. Mr. Krishnam Raju was not available for comment.

Kakinada once provided the platform for this Telugu film hero of yesteryears, and Mr. Krishnam Raju continued to be in regular touch with political leaders here. His meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi on Sunday was not just to promote his nephew Prabhas’s new film Bahubali , but also to project his candidature for a nominated post in the party, sources said.

Born and brought up at Mogalturu in West Godavari district, Mr. Krishnam Raju entered the political arena from Narasapuram parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket in the general elections in 1992. Denied success then, he joined the BJP and contested the Kakinada parliamentary constituency in the general elections in 1998. With support from the prominent Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham, Mr. Raju won the election by a thumping majority of 1.65 lakh votes.

That victory put him in the good books of the party leadership. In the general election held the very next year, he won the Parliament seat from Narasapuram and became the Union minister for external affairs.

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