TRS shuts door on defectors
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti is keeping on hold execution of its policy of engineering defections from other parties.
Party chief K Chandrasekhara Rao thinks it prudent to await the byelection results and know what kind of impact the present by-elections will have on the body politic in the state.
'Chandrasekhara Rao is expecting sweeping changes in the political mosaic of the party. He thinks it is not the right time to continue to welcome defectors into the party,' a party leader said.
After Union home minister P.Chidambaram had made the historic December 9, 2009 statement on Telangana, the TRS expanded its network all over the region by admitting MLAs from the Congress and the TDP into its ranks.
It attracted several top neutral personalities as well in all the 10 districts of the region. It claimed that nearly 7 lakh new cadres had joined the party.
The bolstered strength enabled the party to boast that the TDP would be washed out in the elections in the region and it was proved true in the recent byelections for seven seats in the region.
Four MLAs had quit the TDP and all of them were re-elected, three on TRS ticket and Nagam Janardhan Reddy as independent from Nagarkurnool in Mahbubnagar district with TRS support. Former minister Jupally Krishna Rao and T Rajaiah had quit the Congress and were re-elected to the Assembly on TRS ticket. An independent MLA Somarapu Satyanarayana continues to be a member of the Assembly attached to the Congress.
Even after its shocking defeat to the BJP in Mahbubnagar, Congress and TDP MLAs are knocking on the TRS door to ensure their political future.
One Congress MLA from Mahbubnagar district and several leaders from Khammam district contacted Chandrasekhar Rao and evinced interest to join his party but his response to them was cold.
'The TRS chief is expecting that after the present byelections the political situation in the state will undergo a sea-change and this may lead to formation of Telangana state.
There is, therefore, no point in inviting a fresh batch of leaders into the party,'' a senior leader of the party said.
'If the outcome of the the by-elections does not lead to creation of a new state, then the TRS will prepare a strategy to get the party machinery ready for the 2014 general election,'' another leader said.
Another reason for not inviting leaders from other parties is the possibility of discontent brewing among the leaders who hail from the place as that of those intending to join the TRS.
The disgruntled TRS leaders might damage the prospects of the party in the general election, it is feared.
News Posted: 11 June, 2012
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