There was a lot of talk about how TRS will become part of the ruling alliance NDA in Centre very soon. This gave a lot of jitters to the Telugu Desam party and its boss Chandrababu Naidu who felt losing even the last set of leverage at the Central level.
Chandrababu Naidu
On and off, there has been some tiff between TRS and BJP leadership but things moved in a positive direction after a long time when Modi gave KCR his appointment and KCR too impressed upon Modi with some of his flagship programmes.
Modi
There was an open talk about Kavitha becoming a Union Minister but the first shot came from BJP leadership when it appointed Lakshman as Telangana’s BJP chief bypassing Kishan Reddy. Amit Shah himself landed in Telangana very soon.
Amit Shah
His calls for KCR mukht Telangana created flutter even as TRS helped BJP by remaining silent on HCU VC Appa Rao’s continuation. But the manner in which Union Law Minister Gowda fired on KCR shows that Modi and Amit Shah are not willing to entertain TRS at any cost!
