This comes after four BRS MLAs from the erstwhile Medak district met Revanth on 23 January, followed by Rajendranagar MLA T Prakash Goud on 28 January.
Published Feb 09, 2024 | 7:00 AM ⚊ Updated Feb 09, 2024 | 7:00 AM
Patnam Mahender Reddy, his wife, and others meet Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday, 8 February, 2024. (MahenderReddyPatnam/Facebook)
Former Telangana information and public relations minister and current BRS MLC Patnam Mahender Reddy and his wife and Vikarabad ZP chairperson Sunitha Mahender Reddy called on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at his residence in Hyderabad on Thursday, 8 February.
Their meeting created a fresh flutter in the pink party, which is at present trying to keep its flock together after losing the Assembly elections late last year.
Though BRS leaders calling on Revanth Reddy have been claiming no political significance for the meeting, doubts continue to linger over what actually is going on in their minds.
This comes after four BRS MLAs from the erstwhile Medak district met Revanth on 23 January, followed by Rajendranagar MLA T Prakash Goud on 28 January.
Interestingly former BRS deputy mayor B Baba Fasiyuddin joined the Congress on Thursday while Hyderabad Mayor Gadwal Vijayalaxmi met Revanth Reddy recently.
She reportedly discussed issues related to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Patnam Mahender Reddy was inducted into K Chandrashekar Rao’s Cabinet on 24 August last year ahead of the Assembly elections.
KCR took the decision as it looked certain that Mahender Reddy would switch parties because the BRS chief was planning to field the sitting MLA, Pilot Rohit Reddy, from Tandur.
Mahender Reddy had been eyeing a ticket from Tandur for quite some as it is his home constituency.
However, Rohit Reddy won the Assembly election on a Congress ticket from Tandur in 2018, defeating him. Rohit Reddy later defected to the BRS.
The two leaders have not been seeing eye to eye for quite some time now.
Mahender Reddy has been nursing a grudge against Rohit Reddy for defecting to the BRS and spoiling his chances of landing the ticket for the Tandur Assembly seat.
Mahender Reddy meeting Revanth Reddy should be unnerving for the BRS as it now trying to come to grips with the exit of sitting Peddapalli MP B Venkatesh Netha.
He joined the Congress on 6 February in the presence of Revanth Reddy and party general secretary KC Venugopal in Delhi.
He later said that he left the BRS after it became clear that the party leadership was in league with each other and that they had reached an understanding to help each other out in the Lok Sabha elections.
Recently, former Telangana deputy chief minister and SC leader from Station Ghanpur Dr T Rajaiah resigned from the BRS in a prelude to joining the Congress. He said he was leaving the BRS unable to bear the humiliation of being sidelined.
He complained that it had become next to impossible for him to get an audience with the chief minister — KCR in both terms of the BRS, from 2014 to 2023 — to represent his problems in the constituency.
He had been ill at ease when the BRS allotted the Station Ghanpur ticket for the 2023 Telangana Assembly election to former deputy chief minister Kadiam Srihari instead of him, the sitting MLA.
Since then, the chasm between the two leaders has widened further. They have been at daggers drawn for quite some time, suspicious of the intentions of each other.
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