Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which has been closely watching the high-voltage political drama going on in Telangana Telugu Desam Party over the reports of Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy’s plans to defect to the Congress party, hopes to cash in on the crisis in the TDP.
For quite some time, the YSR Congress party has been attacking Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for engineering defection of as many as 22 of its MLAs into the TDP and even giving four them cabinet berths.
If the reports doing rounds in the media circles are true, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has deferred his much-publicised padayatra by a few days.
The days of Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy in the party are numbered and he is all set to join the Congress party by first week of November.
While the Congress high command appears to be very eager in admitting Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and MLA A Revanth Reddy into the party, it is also facing a threat of senior party leaders calling it quits sooner or later.
YSR Congress party is most likely to boycott the ensuing winter session of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly commencing on November 10. The session is likely to last 10 days.
In a big jolt, although not unexpected, the CBI special court on Monday rejected the petition of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seeking exemption from appearing in the court for a period of six months in the wake of his proposed padayatra scheduled to commence on November 2.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party president A Revanth Reddy has been in touch with the Congress high command in New Delhi not in the last few days, but for the last six months, if the allegations levelled by his own party leaders are to be believed.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy is all set to be expelled from the party not withstanding his claim that he was still with the TDP and blamed the media for the reports on his joining the Congress party.
It was on October 22 in 2015 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone for Amaravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, amidst a lot of fanfare and massive publicity.
Those who have been closely observing Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for the last one and a half decades, can vouch for the fact that his electoral predictions had never come true.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president A Revanth Reddy on Sunday took a sudden U-turn on the reports of his plan to resign from the TDP and join the Congress party.
The proposed defection of Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy into the Congress party has created tremors not only in the TDP but also in the Congress party.
Notwithstanding the hectic lobbying by APchief minister Chandrababu to replace Transstroy, the original contracting firm constructing Polavaram major irrigation project, with his favourite Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), the Centre has categorically made it clear that there is no question of changing the contractor at this stage.
It looks like the Telugu Desam Party is deliberately fogging Telangana TDP working president A Revanth Reddy out of the party.
