TRS-TDP high drama!

The high drama enacted by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao, declaring that his party has come out of the Mahakootami and would contest all seats in Telangana has created ripples in the state politics, and of course, created sleepless nights for the electronic media journalists.

KCR called up media offices and told them about the failure of talks with Telugu Desam party. Since it is a late night development, it could not become a banner headline for the dailies on Tuesday, but was given a lot of prominence, though it has become hot news for the television channels. Within minutes of KCR calling up the media, TDP senior leader Yerran Naidu denied the talk that the Mahakootami was split and that the talks were still going on. In fact, even after KCR’s announcement, the TRS leaders T Harish Rao and E Rajender continued to hold talks with the TD leaders.

So, Sakshi described it as a TRS shock to Mahakootami, while Andhra Jyothy said the TRS had cut off from the Kootami and Eenadu played it down saying there is still stalemate in seat sharing in Mahakootami. The Congress manifesto made it to the top story in all the three dailies, of course with different headlines. Sakshi said the manifesto reflected aspirations of common man; AJ quoted Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s comment that “My tenure is a golden period in the state history” while Eenadu’s headline is again YSR’s remark that “there is no match for him.”

The simmering discontent within the Congress over the list of candidates has become the second lead in Andhra Jyothy, which tried to project that there was going to be a lot of dissidence in the Congress against the contestants. Eenadu, too, has made a negative story as its second lead, stating that YSR’s claim of 234 MLA seats and 36 MP seats was over-estimation, and that the ground situation is far from his expectations.

UP chief minister Mayawati’s low-key public meeting also made it to the front page news in Sakshi and Eenadu. And the launch of Nano car by Tatas was also a major news for Sakshi