The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Telangana received a jolt on Tuesday as another of its legislator joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
The Congress party is accusing the ruling TRS of having tampered with the electronic voting machines in the GHMC polls enabling the latter to score a more than comfortable victory.
Whenever a controversy arises, Chandrababu Naidu deflects public attention with the help of the yellow media. And it is a similar strategy that he will be adopting in the wake of the Kapu reservation controversy.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who recently gifted his son and IT minister K T Rama Rao with municipal administration department for his crucial role in ensuring landslide victory for TRS in recent GHMC elections, is all set to make him Minister for Industries too soon.
Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir has advised TRS Government to seriously implement all the promises that it made with the people during GHMC elections.
It looks like the Telangana Congress party is being deserted by one leader after the other, following its miserable performance in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections.
Chiru started the Praja Rajyam and later merged it with the Congress. Pawan Kalyan started Jana Sena and is supporting the TDP-BJP combine.
The much-hyped fast-unto-death by so-called strongman of Kapu community Mudragada Padmanabham has turned out to be a damp squib, as he has achieved nothing much after enacting such a high drama.
Controversial director Ram Gopal Verma has slammed Power star and Janasena President Pawan Kalyan for his press meet on the issue of inclusion of Kapu community in BC category.
Talasani Srinivas Yadav might find a place in the 'Limca Book of Records' as the longest serving TDP Minister in the TRS government. To date, one does not even know whether he has actually resigned from the TDP or not.
Although he is neither an MLA nor an MP and does not have any official designation in the TDP, Nara Lokesh presides over the cabinet meetings of AP whenever CBN is away.
KTR already heads the diametrically opposite portfolios of IT and Panchayat Raj Ministry. Now, as a reward for leading his party to victory in the GHMC polls, he has been made Minister of municipal administration and urban development which was under KCR.
There is a proverb in Telugu: 'Aththa kottinanduku kaadu, thodi kodalu navvinanduku' (she cried not because she was beaten by her mother-in-law, but was laughed at by her co-daughter-in-law).
Some months back, the TDP was going hammer and tongs at the TRS, demanding section 8 in Hyderabad and accusing Governor Narasimhan of partisanship.
Telangana BJP President G. Kishan Reddy on Sunday stated that Bharatiya Janata Party's alliance with Telugu Desam Party was not responsible for its defeat in GHMC elections.
