The BJP is the new scarecrow in Telangana politics. Both the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) are accusing each other of cosying up to the saffron party for selfish political ends.
Branding the rival party as being “pro-BJP” is the new political weapon.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was the first to allege that the BRS supremo and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was contemplating a merger of his party with the BJP sooner or later.
“He is trying to strike a deal with the BJP to that effect. If it materialises, KCR will become the governor of a state, while his son KTR will be inducted into the Narendra Modi cabinet,” he said, adding that all the four Rajya Sabha members of the BRS would also join the BJP.
He further predicted that KCR’s daughter Kavitha, currently lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail in connection with the liquor policy scam case, would come out of the prison soon and would be made a Rajya Sabha member. In Telangana, KCR’s nephew and former minister Harish Rao will be handed over the reins of the state BJP and he will become the leader of opposition in the assembly.
“It is going to happen, if not immediately, but in the coming days,” the Chief Minister said in an informal chat with the media recently.
The BRS working president and KCR’s son K T Rama Rao vehemently condemned the predictions of the Chief Minister. He sought to turn the tables on Revanth Reddy, saying that the Congress leader himself would join the BJP along with his team of loyalists soon. He recalled that the chief minister had begun his political journey with the saffron party as a student leader affiliated to the ABVP.
“He only said in the past that he was born in the BJP and he would end his political journey in the BJP under the saffron flag,” KTR recalled and challenged the Chief Minister to deny his statement.
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