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Rajya Sabha member and Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s long time friend K V P Ramachandra Rao has rushed to New Delhi on Monday evening.
The obvious reason is to apprise the high command of the developments in the state congress and the demand for making Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as the Chief Minister. And for that, he has to appease the top leaders like Veerappa Moily, Ahmed Patel and other leaders.
Sources say KVP has taken a few ‘suitcases” as he used to do during the YSR period, to please the bosses. So, if not pressure tactics, suitcases will work to a great extent in changing the high command’s opinion.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to arrive in Hyderabad on Thursday to hold talks with various sections within the party. It is after his visit that the party may decide to convene a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) to elect its new leader.
The re-swearing-in ceremony of Rosaiah Cabinet would have become controversial but for the timely intervention of the high command and of course, K V P Ramachandra Rao, advisor to late CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
In the morning, a few ministers expressed their reluctance to be sworn in, as they wanted Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to be declared the Chief Minister. “I don’t feel like being a minister without YSR. I wish Jagan takes over as the Chief Minister,” minister D K Aruna said. Others like Jupalli Krishna Rao, Konda Surekha, Ahmedulla and P Ramachandra Reddy also expressed similar opinion. This led to speculations that some of them might abstain from swearing-in.
However, the situation changed by evening. The Congress high command sent a message to all the ministers through late Rajasekhara Reddy’s advisor K V P Ramachandra Rao that they should take oath. Minutes before the swearing in ceremony, KVP held a meeting of all the ministers at his residence and told them that abstaining would send wrong signals to the party cadres and that it amounted to defying the party directive.
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.
