It looks like the path for progress for Andhra Pradesh health and tribal welfare minister Kidari Sravan Kumar in state politics has hit the road block.
While the prospects of his election from Araku assembly constituency are said to be bleak, his dream of being a minister for at least six months is shattered as he is compelled to resign from the state cabinet 13 days before the declaration of assembly election results.
On Tuesday evening, Governor E S L Narasimhan sent a communication to the AP general administration department stating that Sravan Kumar cannot continue in the cabinet after May 11, as he has failed to become either an MLA or an MLC within the mandatory six-month period from the day he was inducted into the cabinet.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu took Sravan Kumar into the state cabinet along with minister for minorities’ welfare N M D Farooq on November 11.
But despite knowing that Sravan has to become a legislator within six months, Naidu did not make any attempt to make him as an MLC.
Sravan came into politics after the death of his father Kidari Sarveshwara Rao, who was killed by Maoists in September last along with former MLA Siveri Soma.
Otherwise, he was interested in becoming an IAS officer. He did his engineering from IIT (Varanasi) and would have pursued his goal, had his father not been killed.
Now that he is losing his cabinet post, he is a confused man. If he loses his assembly election, too, it will be the end of the road for him at least for now.
He has to wait for another five years to try his luck as an MLA. If Naidu makes him an MLC, he can sustain his political career.
Otherwise, it will be better if he revives his attempt to become an IAS officer!
