'D' block holds the key to TRS turmoil

The epicentre for the entire crisis in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is said to be in “D” block of Secretariat.

According to the TRS sources, the entire planning for a coup against TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao was done in the chamber of K V P Ramachandra Rao, advisor and friend of Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Sources said the TRS rebels had a prolonged meeting with former TRS leader and present Sangareddy MLA T Jayapraksah Reddy alias Jagga Reddy in the chambers of KVP on Sunday morning. While the rebels were assured of some good positions in the coming days, they were asked to engineer a split in the TRS.

Within a couple of hours, they held a meeting at press club and attacked KCR in the strongest words. A couple of journalists, who came to know about their meeting with Jagga Reddy, promptly carried the news to KCR and by evening, he sacked the rebels from the party. TRS floor leader in the Assembly E Rajender, who is loyal to the TRS president, said the rebel leaders have become pawns in the hands of those trying to defeat the Telangana movement.

Azhar to focus on Hyderabad

Former Indian cricket captain and Congress MP Mohd Azharuddin says he will not forget Hyderabad, though he got elected from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Azhar, who met Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in the evening, said he would do his best for the development of Hyderabad which has given him so much name and fame. “My priority is always for my home town,” he said.

Earlier, Azhar kept media persons waiting at the Taj Banjara Hotel, where he was supposed to address a press conference. However, the media persons were told later that Azhar had an engagement at some other place, after which he would have to fly back to Delhi.

Behind The Scene: This KCR is incorrigible!

The state executive committee meeting of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi went about on expected lines: all the party leaders “unanimously” endorsed the leadership of its president K Chandrasekhara Rao and wanted that he would continue to be their leader forever.

Well, that was the picture given to media persons outside. But what went on inside was said to be something different. The TRS president, who spoke for most of the time, virtually blackmailed the party leaders stating that if they do not accept his leadership, he would disband the party altogether. “I have certain plans to take the party forward. Those who do not accept my strategies can go out,” he said.

Apparently, KCR is confident that those who go out of the party would not have any future. Forget Telangana, these leaders have to have some political identity for the next five years. They would lose their credibility among the people, if they jump into other parties. So for good or bad, they have to be in the TRS, so that their political future would be secure. That’s KCR’s strategy!

YSR's aim: Get back old figure by next year

Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s objective is to see that the Congress party would get the old figure of 186 members in the assembly by next year.

This was the talk going on in the Congress Legislature Party office on Monday. According to one Rayalaseema Congress leader, the Chief Minister wants, under any circumstances, that the Congress strength should go up from 157 to 186. It means, the party should get the support of another 29 members.

“It is a difficult task no doubt. But with a clever strategy, the Congress can split the opposition parties. At least three or four TRS MLAs, seven to eight PRP MLAs are willing to join the Congress. The rest have to come from the TDP and independents. We have to make all out efforts to split the parties,” a YSR loyalist said.

'Jayashankar, you are a pimp!'

Perhaps, never in his long career as administrator, academic and political advisor, could Prof K Jayashanar have experienced such a kind of attack.

Jayashankar, who attended the meeting of Telangana NRIs, came under severe attack form pro-Telangana activists, who abused him in filthy language for giving wrong advice to Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao. “Your only objective is to have a drink or two with KCR, but not Telangana. You hang around the TRS president to enjoy personal benefits and don’t have the guts to expose his misdeeds. You leave KCR only after ensuring that he goes to bed with the latest lady boss,” a Telangana leader alleged.

Stung at this strong criticism, Jayashankar said he always tried to give correct advice to KCR, but the latter would never listen. He, however, has no answer as to why he did not desert such a stubborn leader.

Telangana 'paruvu poyindi'

The ‘prestige’ of Telangana has gone down the drain on Monday, with Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders and cadres virtually resorting to street fights and filthy abuses.

Those who witnessed the high drama at Telangana Bhavan, where KCR loyalists assaulted former MP D Ravindra Naik as he tried to barge into the emergency state executive meeting convened by the TRS president, commented that the weakness of the Telangana movement was glaringly exposed. The way Ravindra Naik used foul language against KCR, calling him “mun….kodaka” (son of a bitch) showed that the bankruptcy of leadership in the party.

Naik, in the presence of the electronic media, rubbed his nose on the soil, stating that he had made a blunder by working under the leadership of a feudal like KCR. People wondered how the TRS could lead the Telangana movement further with such leaders!