Is the Telangana Rashtra Samiti becoming jittery over YSR Congress Party's incursions into the Telangana region which it considers as its fiefdom?
The separatist party, which had not uttered a word against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the past, has of late been training its guns on him and his party. It fired the first salvo when Konda Surekha contested the Parkal Assembly byelection in June as YSR Congress candidate. Though she lost the seat she gave TRS candidate M Bhikshapathi, the ultimate winner, a run for his money. The TRS candidate scraped through by a wafer-thin margin of 1,500 votes. The TRS spewed venom on the YSR Congress then and has been continuing to do ever since.
Now with YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi planning a deeksha at Sircilla on Monday in asupport of weavers, the TRS has resumed its attack on Jagan's party. Its MP, Vijaya Shanti, said they would obstruct her from organising the dharna while TJAC chairman M Kodandaram said in Khammam that she was not welcome in Sircilla without spelling out her stand on the statehood issue. "First let her make it clear whether her party is in favour of Polavaram irrigation project," he said.
Accordinh to YSR Congress leaders, people are disenchanted with the Congress, TDP and TRS. They do not like the Congress and the TDP for their ambivalent stance on the Telangana issue and are not comfortable with the TRS because it had promised to force the Centre to declare Telagnana but failed to do it. ``In this scenario we have better acceptability," a YSR Congress leader claimed.
After violence broke out when Jagan Mohan Reddy was on his way to Mahbubabad in May, 2010 for Odarpu Yatra, the pendulam has now swung to the other end. His protests at Armoor in Nizamabad district in January this year and in Hyderabad in March last year drew good response from people. Vijayamma's recent election campaign in Parkal in Warangal district also drew huge crowds.
That the TRS is flustered is quite evident. KT Rama Rao, MLAc and son of K Chandrasekhar Rao, decided to corner the YSRCP leadership on Telangana. All fontal organisations of the TRS declared without mincing that they would prevent Vijayamma's deeksha if the YSRCP failed to declare its stance by July 23.
Taking serious objection to TRS' intimidation, a YSRCP leader said it did not augur well for democracy to force a political party to declare its position on issues and to threaten not to allow a political leader to tour a particular part of the state. "The TRS is afraid of losing its existence to the YSR Congress. Hence the noise," he remarked.
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