Riding high on the Telangana and Jagan Mohan Reddy issue, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy seems to have scored some brownie points with the high command.
Published: 10th February 2013 08:05 AM | Last Updated: 10th February 2013 08:05 AM
Riding high on the Telangana and Jagan Mohan Reddy issue, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy seems to have scored some brownie points with the high command. Dogged by the Jagan menace, Telagana conflict and internal dissent, Kiran Reddy submitted a detailed report to his party high command explaining that the state should not be bifurcated.
A decision in favour of Telangana state would only pave the way for YSR Congress to sweep the 2014 polls in the Seemandhra region, Kiran Reddy is learnt to have said.
Pointing out the fact that YSRC had been relegated to the third position in the recently-held cooperative polls in the state, Kiran Reddy is understood to have said that these results prove that Jagan Reddy’s popularity is on the wane. As the YSRC is the only party which did not fully back the formation of Telangana state during the recent all-party meeting in Delhi, a positive decision over T-state would be used by Jagan to win the 2014 elections by raking up the Andhra sentiment, Kiran Reddy reportedly reasoned.
Sources divulged that in his report, Kiran Reddy also underscored Maoist resurgence in Telangana, knotty issues like status of Hyderabad and sharing of river waters in support of his opinion.
Even after the announcement of AICC state in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad that there was no deadline for deciding the Telangana issue, no largescale protests took place in the region, the chief minister pointed out, adding that there was also no opposition from Telangana ministers and Congress MLAs. Congress victory in eight out of 10 Telangana districts in the cooperative polls clearly indicates that the Congress can resolve the issue by setting up a regional development council instead of granting statehood, he said.
Coincidently, K Chandrasekhar Rao, whose actions have always benefitted the Congress has also decided to go cold on the Telangana issue. KCR’s party the Telangana Rashtra Samiti has decided to shift its attention on building the party from grassroots level. The shift of emphasis from agitational to purely political activities comes in the context of suspicions in the TRS that the UPA government is getting ready for the next election. The thinking within the TRS is that the Telangana knot will be unravelled only after the elections.
Meanwhile, the CM further said that even if the Congress delivers Telangana state, there is no guarantee that the ruling party will get electoral benefits as it would have to compete with several other pro-Telangana parties in the region.
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