Sriram Karri | Revanth era in Telangana: Hope reigns amid caution
Deccan ChronicleA few months ago, at an averagely attended training programme of key state and district-level Congress leaders, Telangana PCC chief and Lok Sabha MP A. Revanth Reddy unveiled the roadmap to victory for the party in elections to be held by year-end. It was because the session was titled, “How Congress can win?” Revanth Reddy was possessed by the spirit best captured by former American president Barack Obama’s magic phrase, ‘The audacity of hope’. A quick series of mistakes — allowing dissidents to build a campaign against the then state party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, culminating in creation of two groups, and in a piquant and unprecedented situation for the BJP, groupism became apparent, with news leaked against each other, media plants, ending finally with Sanjay’s removal, to be replaced by Union minister G. Kishan Reddy. Simultaneously, after the intense confrontation led by Bandi Sanjay against the BRS softened, including a decrease in attacks on the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led government for corruption and the involvement of BRS MLC and daughter of CM Rao, K. Kavitha, in the Delhi liquor scam, the BJP began to increasingly look like a party that had reached a clandestine deal with the BRS.