Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy by increasing in one
go the stridency of his attack on the YSRCP president and Kadapa MP
Jaganmohan Reddy than ever before in course of his road show at Tirupati
on Friday must have clearly left awe-struck his detractors in the State
Congress leadership who had even complained to the party high command
that he had been handling Jagan with kid gloves for some reason or
other, though the reason is obvious.
Rude shock
What
must have come as a rude shock to Jagan and his close camp followers
was perhaps his harsh remarks that starting initially from ‘economic
offences' he (Jagan) had grown up to ‘gang up' with killers, gun-runners
and criminals to ‘amass wealth'.
Willy-nilly, with
his stinging attack against Jagan perhaps for the first time, Kiran
Reddy must have succeeded in sending a signal loud and clear to his
detractors in the party and more importantly to the high command
“observers” at Delhi who have been virtually breathing down his neck,
that he has stopped playing hide and seek while dealing with Jagan and
that he was now going for his jugular. Kiran does not seem to have any
other option either as he has to safeguard his own position which is
directly monitoring his working.
In fact as though to
match Kiran's sharp barbs at Jagan, the other two key Congress leaders
in the road show, APCC president, Botcha Satyanarayana and Rajya Sabha
member, Chiranjeevi also had to notch up their rhetoric against Jagan,
than their normal decibel level.
Retaliatory attack
But
rather surprisingly, there was not much of retaliatory attack against
Kiran's outburst against Jagan, even from the District leaders of the
YSRCP. The lone hit back has come from only the Farmers' Wing of the
District YSRCP which sought to turn the table against the Chief Minister
by recalling the serious charges levelled against him (Kiran and his
brother by none other than his own party MLA and former minister,
Shankar Rao dubbing them as ‘red-sanders smugglers'. He had even
promised to prove his charges, they said.
The YSRCP
leaders, led by T.Adikesavulu Reddy, district farmers wing convener
asked the CM whether it was fair on his part to spread canards against
Jaganmohan Reddy who is none other than the son of Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy
who gave him (Kiran) his political life. The leaders have said in their
statement that they however understood Kiran's predicament that unless
he heaped barbs on Jagan, his own fate would be sealed by the high
command.
From HINDU
