The bold move by Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in threatening to suspend his own Telangana Rashtra Samithi party MLA from Mahbubabad Banothu Shankar Naik for allegedly misbehaving with woman collector Preeti Meena and forcing him to tender an apology to her brought to him a lot of accolades.
Netizens have started drawing comparison between KCR and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu in reining in the MLAs.
They pointed out that Naidu remained helpless when his party MLA from Denduluru Chintamaneni Prabhakar allegedly slapped and dragged a woman tehsildar when she tried to stop the illegal sand mining activities and even threatened to get her crushed under the vehicle.
Instead of taking action against the MLA, Naidu called the MRO and pulled her up for confronting the MLA.
In another instance, Vijayawada MP Kesineni Nani and MLA Bonda Umamaheshwar Rao manhandled an IPS officer Balasubrahmanyam, who is presently the transport commissioner for not toeing their line.
Though Nani apologised under public pressure, Naidu did not dare take any action against the MP.
There are several such instances of the TDP legislators and MPs misbehaving with the officials and bureaucrats, but they could get away because Naidu had no guts to act against them.
But in case of KCR, he did not lose much time in forcing the MLA to apologise. Unlike Naidu, he even went to the extent of announcing disciplinary action against Shankar Naidu.
That is the difference between a strong leader and a weak leader!
