Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has successfully demolished the opposition parties in the state with his Operation Akarsh and a series of victories in all the elections held in the last two years, is now hell bent on breaking the backbone of the Congress party.
According to sources, KCR has more or less succeeded in creating a split in the Komatireddy brothers – Congress MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and MLC Rajagopal Reddy by luring the former into the TRS.
Sources said KCR’s son K T Rama Rao had negotiated with Venkat Reddy and finalised the deal before he left for the USA. Indications are that Venkat Reddy would join the TRS on June 6.
However, Rajagopal Reddy has differed with his brother. Sources said Rajagopal still sees a lot of prospects for him in the Congress party and he strongly believes he would become the PCC president, so that he can restore the glory of the party; and who knows, he can even become the Chief Minister one day.
But, hitherto, he had been getting strong support from Venkat Reddy; and if the latter defects to the TRS, Rajagopal would definitely get demoralised. And that is what KCR wants!
