Kiran planning to float a new party - TeluguPeople.com News

Hyderabad: Is Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy about to float a political party? Reliable sources in Congress say so. Most of the Congress leaders in Seemandhra feel let down by the party high command for going ahead to create the separate State of Telangana.

Those who can neither switch over to YSRCP or TDP nor continue in the party feel an urgent need to have a party of their own. As the general elections are looming, they do not have much time and, hence, are banking on Kiran to do something to secure their political future.

That Kiran Reddy is utterly unhappy with the attitude of his high command is an open secret. He has been giving vent to his anger and frustration at the slightest provocation when his cabinet colleagues and party MLAs meet him.

Congress leaders who met him on Thursday at his camp office came out, feeling that he is sore about the high command's secret understanding with Jaganmohan Reddy, to checkmate whom he was made the Chief Minister. True or not, this is the impression gaining ground.

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu addressing the media on Friday repeatedly referred to this angle when he said the Congress leaders themselves were bemoaning that their party leadership dumped its cadres and leaders in Seemandhra and made a pact with another party.

The main reason for Kiran Reddy's ire is that the Congress leaders in Delhi have been ignoring him and did not even bother to consult him or invite him to Delhi for consultations before the landmark decision on T was taken by the Union Cabinet.

It is learnt that after concluding that it is nearly impossible for any leader to win in Seemandhra on a Congress ticket in 2014 elections, Kiran Reddy is veering round to the thought of floating a party himself.

According to sources, Kiran Reddy's brother Kishore who looks after Piler constituency on behalf of the Chief Minister has made some groundwork on this project.

He brought the family Siddhaanti who lives in Tiruchanur to Hyderabad last month on Kiran Reddy's birthday. The Siddhaanti consulted his guru about the propitious dates and names for the new party. A retired professor whom Kiran Reddy respects immensely is also involved in the exercise of finalising the name of the party.

First, the name Indira Congress was suggested, but it was felt that no party with Congress as suffix or prefix is going to be respected or trusted by the people of Seemandhra, at least in the coming elections.

'Samaikya Andhra Samiti' or 'Samaikya Andhra Parishat' or 'Samaikya Andhra Bharati' are some of the names that are being considered.

There is no confirmation about Kiran Reddy's involvement in this exercise but Kishore Reddy is fully involved. At a recent meeting of local leaders at Kiran Reddy's residence in Piler, Kishore is understood to have told the followers, comprising mostly sarpanches, that his brother has almost decided to float a new party but the timing is yet to be decided.

Dr Viswanatham, a homoeopathy doctor in Vijayawada, is understood to have applied for registration of a party with the name 'Rashtra Samaikya Samiti' while a retired tahasildar Padmayya of Nalgonda has got a new party named 'Andhra Pradesh Rashtra Samaikya Samiti.'

Those who have been with the Congress ever since they entered politics and who are forced by the circumstances to resign are weighing the options of going for an all together new party.

The former PRP MLAs who later joined the Congress are now repenting the merger of their party with Congress. Had PRP been there, it would have automatically become handy at times like this.

Santosh Reddy, another brother of Kiran Reddy, has commissioned a Bengaluru-based organization having expertise in 'capacit ybuilding for political leadership' to conduct an opinion survey to know the popularity of the Chief Minister and the chances of the new party in the polls.

A second survey is said to be in progress. Depending on the results, Kiran Reddy might take a chance, but only after the Telangana Note is debated by the State Assembly.