After his daughter K Kavitha, who is now lodged in Tihar Jail as accused of Delhi Liquor policy case, finding it difficult to come out of bail even after four months, BRS chief and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is said to be in dilemma on the issue of `surrendering’ to the BJP leadership.
Sources said that KCR’s son and BRS executive president K T Rama Rao,and nephew and former minister T Harish Rao, who were in Delhi earlier this week, came to meet BJP leaders to explore the chances for an arrangement for Kavita’s release.
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has been accusing that BRS surrendered to BJP in recent Lok Sabha elections facilitating winning of their candidates in several constituencies, which led Congress winning confined to 8 seats, an equal number of seats won by BJP.
It may be recalled that Revanth Reddy had successfully led the Congress to gain absolute majority in last year’s assembly elections by convincing people that both BRS and BJP are in collusion, that’s why Kavitha was not arrested in Liquor Scam.
This helped Congress to hijack anti- establishment votes, pushing BJP to third place.
That’s why, it is believed Kavita was arrested ahead of Lok Sabha polls to give a clear signal to voters that BJP has no commitment with the BRS. Only to please BJP leadership, KCR mostly confined his Lok Sabha campaign against Congress, hardly mentioned BJP.
At a time several of its MLAs are migrating to Congress, KCR finding it difficult to politically fought against BJP government at the center against arrest of his daughter. Even opposition parties at the center are also not trusting him.
Moreover, Revanth Reddy, who is known to bear a deep grudge against KCR and his family, has initiated probes into alleged irregularities in a number of projects under the previous BRS government, apart from into phone tapping charges. Both KTR and Harish Rao said to be of the opinion it would be suicidal if the party want to fight with both Revanth Reddy and also BJP government at the Center at a time.
KTR has reportedly favouring for a truce with the BJP top leadership which would give some moral support in facing tirade from Revanth. As part of truce, it is learnt that he is proposing to `offer’ four of its Rajya Sabha members for BJP.
Though BJP-led NDA is now having a simple majority in the Rajya Sabha, it need more support at critical junctures. That’s why, sources indicating bringing pressure on BRS leadership let four of its Rajya Sabha members may merge with BJP.
However, a section of BRS leadership is cautioning that the party should not make any hasty moves out of “fear of revenge politics from Revanth Reddy”. The leader added that the Chief Minister would be wary after what had happened in Andhra Pradesh, where YSRCP leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s move as CM of arresting his rival N Chandrababu Naidu of the TDP had boomeranged, with the TDP sweeping the Assembly polls that followed. “Revanth is unlikely to repeat the mistake,” they felt.
