With the BJP selecting former MLC Ramachandra Rao instead of MP Etala Rajender as state party chief, the BJP national leadership has reportedly indicated it is preparing to move closer towards BRS, against the Congress.
The recent MLC elections, in which BRS indirectly facilitated the BJP’s victory by not contesting even in districts where it has strength, and KCR’s confining his criticism of the Congress by not mentioning the BJP much at the Warangal public meeting, have led to such speculations.
Moreover, KCR’s own daughter and MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha had created a stir by declaring that attempts were made to reconcile with the BJP while she was in jail, and that she opposed it.
MLA Raja Singh, who announced his resignation from the party in protest against the fact that he was stopped from filing his nomination for the post of state president, has made serious allegations that prominent leaders in the party do not want the BJP to come to power in Telangana.
Sensational comments were made by TPCC Media Chairman Sama Rammohan Reddy saying that the first step towards an alliance between BJP and BRS has been taken in the state. Stating that the BJP will support BRS in the state and BRS will support BJP at the center, he said that Ramachandra Rao was appointed as the BJP state president as part of that.
He predicted that these two parties will contest together in the next elections. He made it clear that BJP is equal to the BRS party. The BJP, which gave the slogan of BC Chief Minister in the last assembly elections, has so far given the posts of state president, party leader in the assembly, and party leader in the legislative council to Reddy social groups.
Moreover, Kishan Reddy is a cabinet minister. Although the top leadership of the party wanted BC to be appointed as the BJP state president, it is believed that bringing Ramachandra Rao into the fray at the last moment is an extension of friendship to BRS.
Along with Etala Rajender, who has emerged as a strong contender for the post of state president, another MP Raghunandan Rao was also from BRS. They had a serious disagreement with KCR and joined the BJP. Similarly, Nizamabad MP D Aravind, who was also considered as a contender to head the state BJP, was also against BRS.
It is being believed that Kishan Reddy, Dr. Lakshman and Bandi Sanjay Kumar brought Ramachandra Rao into the fray, fearing that even if any of them were made the state president, it would not be possible to have an alliance with BRS.
