Hyderabad: The outburst of TRS chief and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at the party’s state executive meeting on Sunday has left ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs, and other senior leaders in utter confusion.
Chandrashekar Rao had issued a strong warning to ministers and MLAs, who had openly sought the elevation of K.T. Rama Rao as CM. It is now being hotly debated in TRS circles. Mr Rao admonished leaders making such demands so sternly that he was unequivocal about throwing them out of the party if they continued to talk about changing the CM.
Ministers and MLAs wonder why they were not directed earlier not to air their views on the CM change issue all along, even though they were at it for the past two months. They wonder why Mr Rama Rao too, kept silent when they talked about ‘KTR as CM’, including in his presence at public meetings.
Ministers, MLAs and other leaders, in their internal discussions, are reported to be confessing that they had almost competed…