HYDERABAD: The BJP high command, worried over the infighting in the Telangana party unit, is expected to meet with senior party leader and Huzurabad MLA Etela Rajender, and former MLA from Munugode, Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy in Delhi with the two leaders expected to reach the national capital by this evening.
Also summoned to Delhi by the party leadership was Union Minister G Kishan Reddy who was in Hyderabad and was taking part in the BJP’s Maha Jan Sampark Abhiyan. Kishan Reddy cut short his programmes in Hyderabad and rushed to Delhi.
Rajender, and Rajgopal Reddy are expected to meet party president JP Nadda, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah sometime this evening and present their case with respect to how they feel neglected, and being sidelined by the state leadership. They are reportedly vexed with inaction by the party high command on their inputs on how the state BJP was losing ground and was not doing anything to combat an increasing perception that it has some kind of an understanding with the ruling BRS party in the state.
Incidentally, Nadda is scheduled to attend party’s public meeting on Sunday in Nagarkurnool, and according to party insiders, wants to put an end to the roiling in Telangana BJP to rest, so that all state leaders can present a unified picture at the public meeting.
According to sources, they feel that the BJP is more focused on the Centre and on the outcome of Parliament elections next year and is not paying enough attention to the affairs in the state and on coming to power in Telangana. “The BJP is a national party and it is understandable that it focuses on being in power at the Centre, but Etela and Komatireddy are state leaders, and they feel the BJP is heading nowhere in its stated aim of dethroning KCR and the BRS,” a source close to the two leaders said.
