Right from the day the Congress came to power in Telangana, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi headed by former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is not able to tolerate A Revanth Reddy to become the chief minister of Telangana.
It is going all out to project Revanth Reddy as an inefficient and incapable leader who is not fit to be in the CM’s chair.
While attacking him politically, the BRS, under the guidance of party working president K T Rama Rao, has been planting stories against Revanth on social and mainstream media, closer to the BRS in the past.
There are reports that KTR is sponsoring quite a few digital newspapers and websites, besides social media campaigners, whose job is to carry news and spread messages running down Revanth Reddy day in and day out.
One such report that appeared on an English news website a couple of days ago was that the Congress high command is extremely unhappy with Revanth Reddy as it is of the view that the latter had completely ruined the party in the last two years.
According to this report, All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Mallikarjun Kharge is deeply concerned over the continuing slide of the Congress in Telangana even before it completes two years in office.
The report says Kharge’s disappointment is because of four reasons: 1) failure to implement the pre-poll promises; 2) overall governance being seen in a poor light by the people; 3) infighting among ministers denting the image of the party and the government; and 4) bad handling of enhanced reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) in education, employment and public life.
Kharge, according to sources, has been voicing these concerns during the course of interactions with Telangana party leaders who call on him as a courtesy visit or to voice their grievances.
Kharge is understood to have told a group of MLAs that Revanth should have adopted a time-bound, methodical approach towards implementing the “six guarantees” promised by Sonia Gandhi ahead of the elections in Telangana in December 2023.
He was also not happy over Revanth Reddy for failing to present a picture of cohesive functioning, more talk and less action on the ground, ministers badmouthing their own colleagues in public have also been pointed out by the Congress president as “drag factors”.
According to the report, Kharge reportedly remarked that it is impossible for the Congress to get elected again in Telangana whenever elections are held.
Congress legislators before whom he made these comments sensed “deep anguish” in the party chief over the state of affairs.
Going by the tone and tenor of the report, it is quite obvious that the report was nothing but a plant of the BRS in the website to project a bad image of Revanth.
