Posted: Mon 11/14/22 01:17AM Updated
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Hyderabad: Former Congress MLA Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy lost the Munugode bypoll and turned out to be a pawn in the BJP’s political game of pushing the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi into the Telangana corner.
The BJP’s conspiracy was supposed to be the main strategy to curb the growing influence of the TRS, but it backfired, preferring the TRS and rejecting the BJP’s traitor, Rajgopal Reddy. The overall strategy of the BJP think tank is that if Rajgopal Reddy wins the election, it may claim support for the BJP while rejecting the TRS.
If the polls fail, the BJP’s strategy is that the defeat can also be portrayed as a moral victory, as either way the BJP will come second in the election with Congress in third. Another tactic is to encourage defections through inducements, portraying defections as authorized by the people. Winning at Munugode by buying MLA, the BJP’s grand plan is to overthrow the TRS government by predicting that more people are ready to leave the TRS.
According to the information gathered by the special investigation team from the accused, Rajgopal Reddy was ready to join the BJP but insisted on not resigning from Parliament. Rajgopal Reddy’s argument is that he will join the BJP without quitting parliament, and even if his defection is questioned, he can appeal to the courts and delay the matter until Parliamentary elections are due next year.
But the BJP leadership insisted on the resignation and assured him of monetary support, and Reddy was confident of winning the elections by splurging hundreds of crores. All he wanted, in turn, was the unconditional support of the party’s top command in New Delhi. However, his hopes of winning were dashed by the TRS movement, which had pinned its hopes on the state government’s welfare and development programmes and the people’s unconditional support for Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao.
In short, Rajgopal Reddy ended up being a small pawn in a big plan.
Apart from Telangana, the BJP is also targeting the government of YS Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh. The plan was to maintain friendly relations with Jagan while intensifying efforts to “convince” the MLA to split from the YSRCP and join the BJP. AP’s plan was to get close to Jagan and slowly pull the rug away from under his feet. The BJP is said to have contacted more than 70 leaders from the AP, including 55 from the ruling YSR Congress party.
Delhi’s AAP government is also under the spotlight, as the audio clips reveal. BJP leaders claim to have contacted 43 leaders of the Delhi government and 21 leaders of Rajasthan.
