It looks like days, if not hours, are numbered for veteran politician and Rajya Sabha member D Srinivas in ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
DS, as the TRS MP and advisor to the state government on inter-state affairs, is most likely to be sacked from the party in a day or two.
There is also a possibility that DS himself might resign from the party. In all probability, he is likely to join the Congress sooner than later.
The news that DS might get the boot from the TRS stared doing rounds since morning, when Nizamabad MP and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha held a meeting at her camp office in the town with party MLAs and MLCs from the district to discuss the damage being caused to the party by DS.
After the meeting, the Nizamabad district TRS leaders unanimously wrote a letter to the chief minister seeking disciplinary action against DS for anti-party activities.
They alleged that DS had been playing a double game by encouraging a section of the TRS workers in the district to support his younger son D Arvind who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party recently.
“He has not uttered a single word against his son who has been attacking the TRS day in and day out,” they pointed out.
At the same time, he has been secretly holding parleys with the Congress high command, while camping in New Delhi for the last three days.
Kavitha got specific information that DS had a secret meeting with senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad a couple of days ago and was trying to contact party president Rahul Gandhi.
“He has bene in touch with the Congress leaders in Delhi for quite some time,” they said.
The TRS leaders said that D Srinivas was of no use for the party. Srinivas is a rejected leader as the people have voted against him in the last three elections, said the TRS leaders.
''Even though he was a defeated leader the CM was kind enough to give him Rajya Sabha seat and cabinet rank post but he is working against the party hence disciplinary action should be taken against him,'' said the TRS leaders.
Apparently realising that the TRS leadership is likely to take a decision against him, DS called for a meeting of his followers at his residence later in the day to decide on the future course of action.
He refused to comment on the TRS leaders’ complaint against him.
