YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's decision to launch a three-day deeksha in the third week of May in Kurnool in protest against the construction of Palamuru-Dindi projects by the Telangana government is going to prove a shocker to him.
The party, which has its nominal presence in Telangana with one MP and one MLA from Khammam – Ponguleti Srinivasulu Reddy and Payam Venkateshwarlu, is going to be wound up on Tuesday, with both of them deciding to join the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Ponguleti happens to be the president of the YSR Congress party in Telangasna.
Apparently, TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is agitated over the way Jagan decided to oppose the irrigation projects in Telangana to get political mileage in Andhra Pradesh.
Hitherto, KCR has been adopting a soft stand towards the YSR Congress party president, who was also reciprocating in the same manner. The party has cooperated with the TRS in all the earlier elections held in the last two years.
But, with Jagan taking anti-TRS government stand, KCR is upset. That is precisely why he used his Operation Akarsh weapon at the remaining YSRC leaders.
Though there have been reports that Ponguleti and Payam might defect to the TRS long ago, they did not do so because of the understanding between KCR and Jagan.
Now that Jagan is going all out against Telangana interests, the two party leaders have decided to take a plunge officially, thereby virtually winding up the party in Telangana.
