PCC Chief – A genius or just that lucky?

Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal opened the doors with his resignation. And then the mob followed. The resignations drama continues till date even after speaker N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has accepted the resignations of 12 MLAs. One of those resignations belongs to Nizamabad MLA from BJP, Lakshmi Narayana.

Though initially BJP state unit president Bandaru Dattatreya had directed the MLAs -- Kishen Reddy and Lakshmi Narayana -- to resign, the high command intervened and decided that the MLAs should not quit in the best interest of the party. Kishen Reddy was more than happy to oblige. However, Lakshmi Narayana’s resignation was already accepted by the speaker by the time he got the news.

This mishap in BJP has opened the doors once again to PCC chief D. Srinivas who was defeated by Lakshmi Narayana in the 2009 elections. Prior to 2009 elections, D. Srinivas was a contestant to the chief minister’s chair along with Y.S. Rajashekar Reddy. Now, with Rosaiah’s administration crumbling all around him, D. Srinivas could be a favorite for the chief minister’s or the deputy chief minister’s post. Irrespective of the outcome, he is a PCC chief who has failed to show good leadership during the T-crisis.

I cannot help but wonder aloud whether everything just fell into place for D. Srinivas or did he orchestrate a brilliant plan to pull this off? If he was indeed behind this, why couldn’t he pull-off something similar to solve the T-issue in an amicable way? May be he was just lucky.

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