SWORD OF DAMOCLES HANGS AGAIN ON KIRAN REDDY

By Ramesh Reddy / Hyderabad

Congress high command places a person in a coveted position, at his/her own peril. The beneficiaries must know that they are there at the helm not because they earned the position, but because the high command condescended on them to hold fort. There are a few exceptions like YS Rajasekhara Reddy for a variety of reasons.

N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who was made the Chief Minister more than two and a half years ago from nowhere, has always been apprehensive of the Sword of Damocles hanging on his head. While he is the bete noire of YS Jaganmohan Reddy and his media houses, he is no darling of other media houses too.
Therefore, media gets the first information report on when Kiran would be going to Delhi. And every time, they get this information they can’t stop grinning. They immediately put out a story that a leadership change in the State is in the offing. Slowly, as things begin unfolding, they say the leadership they meant was the corner office in Gandhi Bhavan (APCC president) and not the one in ‘C’ block in the State Secretariat. As things turn out, nothing they expected come true. They come up with theories like Kiran was suitably advised to “mend his ways” and the APCC president was told to behave.

Then there will be stories about nominated posts and a slew of statements from people like V Hanumantha Rao and a few leaders would call on Sonia Gandhi and claim outside the No. 10 Janpath that they held parleys with the Congress president on the precarious situation of the party in the State. All inefficient leaders would tell the media that they complained to Sonia Gandhi that ministers and MPs and legislators were surreptitiously helping YS Jagan’s party.

They also make a demand that Jagan’s assets should be seized and distributed among the poor (they think they fall in that category).

The recent meeting of N Raghuveera Reddy with Sonia Gandhi and its denouement are causing ripples in the Congress. He claimed that he had discussed the party matters threadbare with the Congress high command. All speculations would be put to rest soon, he said. So, what’s cooking at Janpath is interesting. Will Kiran survive the onslaught this time too?