NTR family back on Andhra political stage

Rediff: "NTR's daughter Purandareswari made her electoral debut to Lok Sabha from Bapatla defeating renowned film producer and incumbent D Rama Naidu by a margin of over 90,000 votes. Her husband Dr Daggupati Venkateswara Rao, a former MP, also made a forceful comeback by winning the Parchur assembly seat with a comfortable majority. Parchur assembly falls under the Bapatla Lok Sabha seat.

Rao and Naidu were equally groomed by NTR and they together overthrew NTR and took over the party reins. Rao was slowly sidelined and he hopped to NTR-TDP and BJP before settling down in Congress. NTR's widow Lakshmi Parvathi too had a brief stint in politics and lost the election from Atmakur assembly this time while his eldest son Harikrishna was made a minister after the family coup but was slowly pushed aside."