The PCC President Botsa Sathyanarayana’s Banjara Hills residence is off late become a `Gyan Ashram’ for the Congress leaders who are irked by the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s actions. The `Gyan Ashram’ is receiving the irked people with open hands. Filling those people with positive energies and the irked ones come out well charged with diplomacy. Probably the hot line between the house and 10 Janpith must be ever live (just joking ok). The recent cabinet reshuffle and clipping of powers of the existing ministers seem to have doubled the list of visitors to the `Gyan Ashram.’ The ever increasing list is quite difficult to narrate. But as of now we have three prominent people who are regularly in touch with the PCC Chief. And the chief seems to cajole them of better days ahead.
Among the three the most prominent outburst belongs to our Health minister D L Ravindra Reddy, who seemed to have driven directly to meet the PCC Chief on arrival from Kadapa on Wednesday. The minister probably wanted to vent his dissent over clipping of his Ministry wings in the recent shuffle. He is quoted by a media source to have said that the incident was very painful, `'It was like driving a knife into you and then turning the blade.' He also planned to quit the existing portfolio too. But Mr Botsa as usual consoled him and made him talk to high command. In their combined strategy the minister refrained from quitting and pacified. He later drove down to meet the CM. The CM’s reasons seemed unconvincing to the minister for the clipping, but maintained diplomacy.
After this consoling Mr Botsa had to answer the phone call of deputy chief minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, who vented his dissent for having clipped him of the Agricultural ministry. As usual the PCC Chief gave him some gyan too. It is a known fact that the Dep CM has not been sharing a good relationship with the CM, since sometime. He even went to the extent of using the sacking of the former Minister P Shankar Rao as an anti Dalit stand of the CM.
Well the third in the league was the excise minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, who had been in the news for a graft case. He seemed to have been named by the Anti Corruption Bureau’s remand diary, of accepting Rs. 10 Lakhs from a liquor baron. Probably the Minister should have felt the CM’s hand in the whole controversy. Though not openly, the minister was in a cold war with the CM, over the issue. The minister seems to feel much better and lighter after his consultations with the PCC Chief.
The Congress party has always been facing internal conflicts within the party, ever since the former CM Y S Rajasekhar Reddy had suddenly died in a helicopter mishap. But off late there things are turning worse, feel the political observers. The growing dissidence could really harm the present government and could even harm the party image for the next elections due in 2014. (With inputs from internet: AarKay)
