Hyderabad: With the inevitability of the de jure rise and anointing of minister and TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao as the next Chief Minister of Telangana setting in, party leaders and ministerial aspirants have started die-hard efforts to get his attention and push for their Cabinet candidature.
With a plethora of strategies, including media leaks, name dropping and trying to send feelers to the new leader of the state, everyone from TRS ministers to MLAs, MLCs and others are trying to stand apart as ministry-worthy.
Gossip is abuzz and grapevines are feeding all manners of “news” about who is in and who will be out. Amidst the intertwined emotions of insecurity and hope, TRS leaders are asking – “am I in? Will I make it? What does KTR really want?”
In the hot race are several senior MLAs and younger ones trying their luck for a Cabinet post in the upcoming ‘KTR Cabinet’ are also increasing their tryst with religious approval and promises to the…