Within hours of disclosing to the media on Thursday evening right in front of the camera that he was feeling suffocated in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and hinting that he may join the Bharatiya Janata Party in a couple of days, Bodhan MLA Mohammad Shakeel took a complete U-turn.
In his late night message to all the media houses and reporters, Shakeel said he had full faith in the leadership of TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who was like his Godfather. He said he had no complaints whatsoever with the party.
On his meeting with BJP MP Dharmapuri Aravind, Shakeel said it was only to invite him to a central government programme at Bodhan and that the media had only spread the false messages that he was joining the BJP.
Apparently, Shakeel got a dressing down from the party leadership and he was asked to come to Hyderabad to meet party working president K T Rama Rao.
One does not know what transpired between Shakeel and KTR, but soon after coming out of the meeting with KTR, Shakeel took a complete U-turn.
Sources said by the time Shakeel came to Hyderabad, the TRS leadership got a dossier ready with it against him. There have been criminal cases pending against Shakeel with regard to human trafficking and fake passport scam.
At least two criminal cases are pending in tees Hazari court Delhi against Shakeel. He thought he would escape from the cases by joining the BJP and at the same time, he could blackmail the TRS leadership for a cabinet berth.
But the TRS bosses have prepared dossier against Shakeel and even before he joined the BJP, they would have got him arrested.
Why they wanted him to stay back in the party was that it would trigger similar revolt in the party. And also, it will fetch a bad name to the TRS, if the lone Muslim MLA defects to a pro-Hindutva party!
