TRS going soft on Jagan's deeksha?
Hyderabad: Will YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy have to face as much an angry crowd and receive as many brickbats as TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu did in Warangal on January 6 when he visits Nizamabad district on January 10.
Though the TRS leaders are saying that they will apply the same yardstick to Jagan and disturb his programme, the conviction in their voice is lacking.
TRS leader T Harish Rao and TJAC chairman M Kodandaram have gone on record saying that they will corner him but, in all likelihood, the protest is likely to be token.
Jagan Mohan Reddy will embark on a 48-hour deeksha on farmers' issues at Armoor in Nizamabad district from Jan 10 morning. This will be his first attempt to enter the Telangana hinterland after his Odarpu Yatra in Mahabubabad ended in disaster on May 28, 2010 with TRS activists resorting to violence and Jagan Mohan Reddy supporters led by Konda Surekha retaliating which finally led to his arrest.
Subsequently, there was considerable change in the attitude of the TRS towards Jagan Mohan Reddy. When he tried to embark on his yatra in Mahabubabad, he was in the Congress.
After he had left the Congress and founded his own party, the TRS has not bothered him much and Jagan too has kept himself away from Telangana. The TRS cadres, from the beginning, had been targeting Telugu Desam more than any other party for its growth.
That TRS has a soft corner for the Congress and Jagan is well known. When it comes to TDP, all TRS activists go into an overdrive.When Jagan was on a week-long deeksha in Hyderabad from February 18 last to press for payment of fee reimbursement dues to professional colleges, no TRS man went near Indira Park where he was on fast.
With several Congress and TDP leaders taunting the TRS asking it whether its workers would be as militant and as fierce as they were during Naidu's Warangal tour, Harish Rao was forced to say that his party would apply the same yard stick to Jagan.
News Posted: 9 January, 2012
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