HYDERABAD: The BJP that was on a excessive with the latest prized catch of Dr Boora Narasaiah Goud from the TRS (TRS), obtained payback from the ruling celebration, which did one higher by having two BJP leaders – Ok. Swamy Goud, and Dr Sravan Dasoju — be part of its fold, leading to some high-pressure moments for the saffron celebration.
To make issues worse for the BJP, as quickly as information broke that Goud and Dr Sravan had been becoming a member of the TRS, a flood of tidbits of knowledge started making the rounds on social media platforms that there have been extra leaders set to abandon the BJP – together with former TRS MLA from Nizamabad, Enugu Ravinder Reddy who joined the BJP in July, and Ch Vittal, the previous president of Telangana State Workers Union, who joined the celebration final December, to not point out the names of the likes of Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao
This despatched BJP leaders scrambling to determine the place extra hits from the TRS wold come although, by the top of the day, BJP leaders appeared to have considerably calmed down.
At one level of time within the day, the identify of former celebration MP A.P. Jithender Reddy too made the rounds as a possible BJP deserter. Nevertheless, he informed Deccan Chronicle that there was no query of going to a celebration that has misplaced its moorings. “The TRS is making an attempt to unfold confusion,” he stated.
A number of senior BJP leaders stated that they didn’t see Swamy Goud and Dr Sravan’s exit coming. The BJP, had been in a self-congratulatory mode ever since Dr Goud joined the celebration with hopes that he would be capable to swing a considerable variety of Backward Class votes in its favour in Munugode, coming as he does, from Bhongir constituency, which he represented within the Lok Sabha.
For the TRS, engineering the return of Goud and Sravan into its fold seems to have been not very onerous, itching because it was for paying again the BJP in the identical coin after it misplaced Dr Narasaiah Goud. It’s no secret that TRS working president Ok.T. Rama Rao had been reaching out to leaders within the BJP searching for their ‘assist’, in different phrases, asking them to affix the ruling celebration, notably within the mild of the byelection within the Munugode Meeting constituency.
Based on sources within the BJP, given Swamy Goud’s seniority within the TRS, and his previous affiliation with Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekar Rao, his switching to the TRS may have been made attainable solely with Chandrashekar Rao’s involvement.
However in doing so, the TRS has proved that it was not a celebration that can take a blow mendacity down and is able to touchdown its personal punches with sufficient heft on its opponents, and at a time of its selection.
