Who will blink first? Congress high command or the rebellious Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy?
This is the question doing the rounds in political circles as the game of hide and seek between the two nearing an end.
Kiran has told his close aides that he would continue the fight to keep the state united till the end and in the process go down as the hero of Seemandhra.
The present strategy of the Chief Minister is to insist on Centre sending a resolution and the draft bill on Telangana to the State Assembly and ensure that they are defeated on the floor of the House.
"I will personally take the initiative to put the draft bill to voting. By defeating on the floor of the Assembly, we will send a strong signal to the party high command that what it has done is wrong," Jagan is believed to have told his close confidants.
After this "moral victory", the Chief Minister will exit from the party and join the movement for integrated state.
"Let us not talk about floating a separate party at this stage. We will prove our point to the central government and then go to the people," the Chief minister said.
His contention is that once the Telangana bill is defeated in the Assembly, it would be morally indefensible for the Centre to move ahead with the division of the state.
"The people will accept us if we go down fighting rather than give up half-way and leave the ground," Kiran is said to have remarked.
