KCR’s volte-face over PM’s event triggers speculation
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: The inauguration of renovated Yadadri temple, originally scheduled to be done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March/April, has turned curious following Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s strained relationship with the former. Though the Chief Minister met the Prime Minister and invited him to inaugurate the temple in September last, uncertainty prevails over the event in the aftermath of Chandrashekar Rao, in a pre-planned strategy, skipping the mega event of unveiling the ‘Statue of Equality’ at Chinna Jeeyar ashram on the city outskirts by Modi on Saturday. The Chief Minister skipping Modi’s event appears to be pre-planned what with the inauguration plaque having only the Prime Minister’s photo and name besides that of Chinna Jeeyar Swami and Myhome group chairman Dr J. Rameshwar Rao. While two diametrically opposite narratives are floated within the TRS on the Chief Minister’s disruptive move, the rival political parties, however, see it as a strategy to prepare the ground to accuse the Prime Minister of pursuing vendetta politics in the eventuality of the use of Central probe agencies against the party leadership.