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Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao has become completely isolated in the IAS circles in the state. Though he earned a lot of reputation for successfully conducting the elections without any law and order problems and major complaints of irregularities, he could not get any support from his own comrades in the bureaucracy.
When Director General of Police S S P Yadav dashed off a series of letters to Subba Rao seeking an explanation why he was shifted from the post during the elections, not a single IAS officer came to the rescue of Subba Rao, though it amounted to questioning the authority of a constitutional body. On the other hand, a couple of IAS officers in the CMO are directly supporting Yadav and finding fault with Subba Rao.
Reason is simple: no officer wants to antagonise Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who is fully supporting the DGP. And since all of them want good postings, they can’t open their mouths now. How sad?
The Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, and his wife Ms Bhuvaneshwari, who returned from the United States in the early hours of Wednesday underwent swine flu screening tests at the Shamshabad airport. Sources said the tests on the couple proved negative.
Mr Naidu had gone to the US for a week on a personal visit. Meanwhile, two more air passengers — a 23-year old man from Kuwait and 25-year old woman from Dubai — were quarantined after they were found to have swine flu symptoms after screening tests at the city airport on Wednesday.
Sources at the hospital said two people who were under observation were discharged after their tests came out as negative on Wednesday. Dr Ch. Jayakumari, district medical and health officer, has warned against people taking drugs like Tamiflu and Oseltamivir to develop resistance against swine flu.
“Those taking it without advice may develop suicidal tendencies,” said Dr Jayakumari.
Meanwhile, the Central government Central Council of Homeopathy PG Committee chairman, Prof B. Sohan Singh, said swine flu can be prevented with a homeopathic medicine “Gelsemium-6”. In case of disease symptoms, like sneezing, headache, fever and throat pain, the patient just needs to take Gelsemium pill three times a day for two days.
Can the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government take over the Telangana Bhavan, the headquarter of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi?
Well, the answer is yes, according to former minister and Tadipatri MLA J C Diwakar Reddy. In an informal chat with media persons on Wednesday, Diwakar Reddy said while allotting five acres of land to the TRS five years ago, the State Cabinet has put forth a condition that the government would have all the rights to take back the land and properties allotted to the TRS, if the party faces a split or disintegration.
“Going by the present situation, it appears that the TRS is heading for a split and the party is getting disintegrated. There is no Telangana talk now. So, if the government wants, it can take back the Telangana Bhavan,” Diwakar Reddy argued.
Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi has made it clear once again that he would not go back to films, come what may.
Till the other day, he used to say that he might consider doing a film or two, depending on the role, which would not affect his political interests. But on Wednesday, he categorically declared that there was no question of doing any films, irrespective of roles.
Why is so adamant? After all, former Chief Minister N T Rama Rao did a couple of films even after losing power in 1989 and even danced with heroines; which later helped him come back to power. But Chiranjeevi decided against doing any films, either because the people might not watch his films anymore; or he does not want to entertain his fans, which did not help him come to power. “Or he might be of the view that the people might misunderstand him, thinking that he had come back to films after failing in politics,” party sources said.
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.
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.
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!
