Has Kiran Rubbed the MLAs on The Wrong Side?
posted on Feb 10, 2012 @ 3:59PM
Wittingly or unwittingly, chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has undoubtedly rubbed several MLAs on the wrong side through the ACB raids on liqour syndicates for the past 50 days. According to sources more than 80 Congress MPs, MLAs and ministers from the state are engaged in liquor trade. They are all now sore that the CM was striking at their very financial roots. According to information of the 80, 9 are MPs while there are 3 MLCs.
As per the sources, all these leaders are up in arms against the Chief Minister and are said to be after his blood. Minister DL Ravindra Reddy has already given a caste twist to this affair. He has alleged that though the ACB has mentioned about the name of a Reddy minister from Telangana in its remand diary along with the name of the Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana who is a BC, the CM got the name of his Reddy colleague removed and allowed the name of Mopidevi to be made public.
A group of this liquor-lobby public representatives met the PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and have expressed resentment towards chief minister's action. Senior political observers are of the opinion that the CM's move to put a check on some of his compititors, is grossly ill-timed. The dissent of 80 public representatives may well prove to be costly for him in the upcoming by-elections. "He should have waited for a couple months, till the bypolls completed. Certainly, he has rubbed on the wrong side at a wrong time," they say.