It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is under pressure to move to New Delhi, leaving the state in the hands of his son K T Rama Rao.
According to reliable sources, with elections fast approaching, KCR has been facing a lot of pressure from within his family to make way for KTR.
Simultaneously, the son has started getting public statements from party leaders asking him to take over the reins of the state after 2019.
Last week, Telangana home minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy demanded that KTR be made the chief minister and said that the state would develop faster under him.
Though Nayani is a loyalist of KCR, he had to make the statement under pressure from KTR.
A couple of other ministers, too, have made similar statements in the recent past. And officials are also endorsing the same view saying that telling something to KTR would mean doing the same with the chief minister.
Although KCR is still healthy and sharp, he has no choice but to listen to his family. So, he started making attempts to float a federal front hoping that it might catapult him to the Prime Minister’s seat in Delhi.
He met other regional party leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Hemanth Soren, H D Deve Gowda, Akhilesh Yadav and M K Stalin, but all of them had only hinted at taking the Congress along with them.
That is precisely why KCR dumped the federal front idea and decided to join the bandwagon of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The fact that he is cosying up with the BJP was evident in many of his moves and the latest is the boycott of voting on the no confidence motion against Modi government.
It would not only help keep the Congress, his biggest rival in Telangana at bay, but also fetch the necessary financial assistance to the state, so that the TRS can get back to power for the second term.
But what will happen to KCR?
He might not opt for a Union minister post, but he might throw his hat into the ring for a Vice-President or President post five years down the line!
