TDP Polit bureau member and sitting MLC Dadi Veerabadra rao describes himself as a poor man in the party. He asked the party president Chandrababu Naidu, whether there is no place or honor for the poor in the party. He complains party humiliated his self respect by not offering 2nd term for him as MLC.

However, Dadi Veerabadra rao is known as a big business man and owner of several colleges including one engineering college located in and around his Anakapalli constituency. Even then, describing himself as a poor man in the party makes the people laugh at him and also makes them curious to know what would be the yardstick to define one as poor or rich.

Perhaps, when compared with some of the big leaders like Nama Nageswara rao in his party, who were said to be crossed Rs.1000 crore mark in terms of their assets and businesses, Dadi Veerabadra rao might be feeling himself as just an upper middle class section in the party and that’s why he might be feeling inferior to the rich members of his party. His statement also indicates that TDP prefers to have rich men only as its members. If, a crorepathi like him believes that he is poor then, what about the real poor in the country?