Why was KCR away? BRS chief plans ‘comeback’ after long absence from public eye

Even arsenic the BRS main announced that the enactment would clasp a nationalist gathering aboriginal this period implicit the Congress government’s misrule, Reddy retorted, comparing KCR to “demonetised currency”, saying, “It had worth successful the past and it has nary worth now.”

Since the 2023 defeat, KCR has not been seen successful nationalist frequently, barring a fewer times successful the Assembly and during the run for the Lok Sabha polls, wherever helium held a autobus yatra. In KCR’s agelong absence, his lad and BRS moving president K T Rama Rao, popularly known arsenic KTR, and elder enactment leaders specified arsenic T Harish Rao and K Kavitha person been holding the fort, often targeting the Congress authorities implicit its allegedly unfulfilled promises. Last week, KTR held a “Rythu Maha Dharna” successful Nalgonda and accused the Reddy authorities of “conspiring to contradict farmers fiscal assistance nether the Rythu Bharosa scheme”. However, the question of wherefore KCR took a “step back” pursuing the BRS’s decision remains unanswered.

According to BRS insiders, the erstwhile CM has been progressive but conscionable “not disposable to the nationalist eye”. “He has been pulling the strings from down the scenes. Everything that the enactment does is approved by KCR. He is precise overmuch successful action,” a enactment idiosyncratic said. It is wide believed that KCR has been “guiding” KTR and Kavitha from down the scenes.

A conception of enactment leaders says that KCR took a measurement backmost to guarantee that the brother-sister duo larn the “tricks of the commercialized distant from his towering shadow”, with immoderate likening him to erstwhile Tamil Nadu CM precocious M Karunanidhi. “Karunanidhi continued to beryllium the president of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam adjacent aft M K Stalin (the existent CM) took implicit the reins. Why shouldn’t KCR springiness a accidental to his lad to bash the same?” a person asked.

Another conception of the enactment believes that the erstwhile Telangana CM is spending clip to “recalibrate” his governmental comeback. According to them, KCR likes a “grand re-entry” and is not idiosyncratic who volition discontinue for his children.

There is simply a beardown buzz successful the state’s governmental circles astir KCR’s actions having to bash with the BRS’s equations with the BJP, which made important gains successful Telangana successful past year’s Lok Sabha polls, chiefly astatine the disbursal of the party. The BJP doubled its tally to 8 portion its ballot stock accrued from 19.6% to astir 35% adjacent arsenic the BRS drew a blank and saw its ballot stock dip from 41.7% successful 2019 to 16.7%.

Is BJP the reason?

The erstwhile CM’s lack from the nationalist oculus has led to varied speculations. While determination is simply a content that the BJP’s gains person mostly “nullified” KCR’s powerfulness successful Telangana, a fewer successful the Congress assertion that the BRS has a “tacit knowing with the BJP”, a complaint often levelled against the determination enactment by elder Congress leaders, including Reddy.

“There is lone 1 mode by which the BRS tin travel backmost to power. It has to triumph backmost voters from the BJP. When determination is nary effort to marque this happen, it is imaginable that determination is an knowing betwixt the 2 parties,” a Congress person said.

Another root said that KCR’s stoic soundlessness was not without reason. “If helium breaks his silence, helium volition person to onslaught the BJP the mode helium utilized to close earlier losing power. It is evident that KCR has not figured retired however to woody with the BJP arsenic of now,” the root said.

BRS insiders, however, claimed that the upcoming nationalist gathering would spot the BRS deed backmost astatine the BJP arsenic good arsenic the Congress. “KCR’s announcement is precise clear. We volition onslaught backmost not conscionable astatine the Congress but besides astatine the BJP,” said a enactment leader.