

The actor did not immediately respond (about his political ambitions)," the BJP leader, who was in the loop, said.

"The proposal has been made but Shah wanted Jr NTR to think it over. Senior BJP leaders, however, noted that politics was indeed the topic of discussion, apart from movies. I don't know about other things.you can ask them," Kishan Reddy said in Chintapalli in AP.

"They talked about film history, movies of legend N T Rama Rao and his political journey. On Monday, Kishan Reddy maintained that Shah and Jr NTR talked only about movies and not politics. It was during these discussions that the Union Home Minister was said to have asked the actor to take the political plunge. Mr Shah then had a 20-minute one-on-one meeting with the actor. On Sunday, Mr Shah had dinner with Jr NTR in Hyderabad, along with Union Tourism and Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy, Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and party's Telangana in-charge Tarun Chugh. This was apparently the reason the BJP top leadership zeroed in on him, the leader said. He proved this in his short campaign (for the TDP) during the 2009 elections," a senior BJP leader observed, adding that Jr NTR has an instant connect with the masses.

He is very articulate in his public speeches and has a thorough political acumen. “Jr NTR has immense clout, a massive fan base and appeal. He was once active in the TDP but subsequently fell out after the advent of Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh on the political scene.īJP sources here revealed that the meeting between Mr Shah and NTR Jr was "strategically planned" with politics as the main agenda. Son of former MP late Nandamuri Harikrishna, Jr NTR is the grandson of Telugu movie legend and Telugu Desam Party founder-president Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.
