Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi supremo and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao continues to be on the backfoot while negotiating the strident and aggressive attacks of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He chose to not retaliate against the BJP’s increased criticism of his governance as well as an unprecedented attack at a personal level by the state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay at the TRS party’s state executive meet on Sunday.
Chandrashekar Rao, indeed, tried to repeat the strategy he successfully implemented with another national party, the Congress, during the agitation for a separate Telangana – differentiating between the Central and state leaderships; show respect to the central high command and ignore the state unit.
Speaking at the party meet, the TRS supremo sought to project, though not explicitly, that he had “struck a chord with the BJP national leadership”. He is said to have commented that he “could not reveal everything that…