Jayasudha Back In Jagan Camp

 

Actress-turned-politician and Secunderabad MLA Jayasudha seems to be switching her loyalties quite often.

Jayasudha, who had been maintaining safe distance from YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for the last couple of months, suddenly appeared at the swearing-in ceremony of his mother Y S Vijayalakashmi on Friday.

She was one of the 13 Congress MLAs, besides two MLCs and one MP, who were present when Vijayalaksmi was taking oath as Pulivendula MLA in the presence of pro-tem Speaker J C Diwakar Reddy.

The actress, who owes her rise in politics to former Chief Minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy and later turned an ardent follower of Jagan, was among the first batch of vocal supporters of an emotional campaign to anoint Jagan as the Chief Minister.

Of late, Jayasudha had been keeping silent on her role in the YSR Congress party in the recent past. She did not even react on the victory of Jagan and Vijayalakshmi in the recent by-elections in Kadapa district. She also stayed away from Jagan’s “Ryhthu Deeksha” programme in Guntur.

There were reports that she had been successfully managed by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. She is understood to have assured the Chief Minister that she will stay loyal to the Congress. But suddenly, she appeared at Vijayalakshmi’s oath taking ceremony, making one wonder whether she has come back to the Jagan fold.

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TDP & Babu In Struggle For Existence

The humiliating performance by the Telugu Desam Party in the just concluded Kadapa by-elections seems to have sent panic waves in party president N Chandrababu Naidu. For the second time, his party candidates have lost deposits – first in Telangana by-elections and secondly in Kadapa.

It is now a struggle for existence for Naidu. He has realized that unless he rejuvenates the party cadres at all levels, there is absolutely no political future for him and his party. The kind of mandate Jagan and his mother got in Kadapa by-elections indicates that the YSR Congress party is going to emerge as a potential force in the state and if this monster is allowed to grow further, the TDP would have to be relegated to the opposition benches again.

That is the reason why the former chief minister has now started taking an aggressive posture against the Congress party. For the first time, he used harsh language against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Jaganmohan Reddy. He now has to tackle both the parties. May be, there is still some outside chance to the TDP, if Naidu sheds his tentativeness on the Telangana issue!

Rosaiah Says No To CM Post

What does any politician do, if he is offered the chief minister post for another term? He would jump with joy and readily accept the offer.

But not our former Chief Minister K Rosaiah. He said he would categorically turn down to become the chief minister, if he is offered the post again. ‘I had enough of it. I am not interested in it anymore,” Rosaiah said, in an informal chat with the media.

There are, however, speculations that Rosaiah might be offered the Governor post in the neighbouring Karnataka state in place of H R Bharadwaj, who is most likely to be shifted to some other state, or offered some key position in the Centre. Apparently, the Centre wants to target the Karnataka government using Bharadwaj in a different way.

And Rosaiah had earlier declined the offer of the Governor post in north-eastern states like Sikkim and Assam on the ground that he would not like to be so far from his home state. He might happily accept the Governor post in Karnataka, sources say.