Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will preside over a joint meeting of the BRS Legislature and Parliamentary party at BRS Bhavan in Hyderabad at about 2 pm on Wednesday, 17 May.
KCR’s sudden decision to hold a joint meeting of BRS MLAs, MLCs, and MPs within a gap of just 20 days is reportedly sending shivers down the spines of BRS leaders who are involved with land, sand, and liquor mafia.In the previous meeting held by KCR last month on April 27 at Telangana Bhavan, KCR made sensational comments, stating that he has a list of BRS MLAs who took bribes up to Rs 3 lakh from Dalit Bandhu and 2BHK housing scheme beneficiaries to extend the benefits.
KCR warned those MLAs to refrain from such activities, or else they would lose party tickets to contest the upcoming Assembly polls scheduled for December, and they would also be expelled from the party.Although KCR did not disclose the names of those MLAs, a list of 30 BRS MLAs who took bribes surfaced on social media platforms and went viral.
KCR’s next meeting with MLAs, to be held today, May 17, has fueled speculations that he is expected to issue a stern warning to a batch of BRS MLAs who are associated with land, sand, and liquor mafia activities.
KCR reportedly obtained intelligence reports that found nearly a dozen BRS MLAs and their friends and relatives were involved in land grabbing, illegal sand mining, and illegal liquor business in their respective constituencies, which has brought a bad name to the BRS government.
BRS currently has 104 MLAs, and the buzz in party circles is that KCR is not in favor of giving tickets to at least 50 MLAs who were categorized as corrupt and non-performing.
Karnataka election results :
The meeting assumes significance as it is being held immediately after the outcome of the Karnataka Assembly elections where the Congress, which is the principal political rival to BRS in Telangana, won hands down.CM KCR is expected to make a deep dissection of the Karnataka verdict and look for factors that might impact the Telangana elections later this year.
The BRS has an advantage in Telangana as there are two Opposition parties in the fray — the Congress and the BJP — which are rising almost equally, kindling hope among the BRS workers that the anti-KCR votes would be split between the two parties, helping the BRS romp home.
The BRS supremo is also expected to cut through various layers of Karnataka’s electoral verdict, particularly in the wake of his ally JD(S) being badly mauled in the electoral battle, with its strength plummeting by half.
According to sources, the BRS supremo will also might take into consideration what would happen should one of the two Opposition parties rise fast, pushing the other down.This is a scenario KCR would want to avoid at all costs as it would be detrimental to his interests.
On the other hand, the BRS might tweak its national policy of insisting on keeping the Congress at bay in forging a national alliance in the wake of the grand old party has more or less become a sine qua non and might even grow to the extent of leading it by virtue of its pan-India presence.
