There is an age-old saying that there are no permanent friends and foes in politics. This is quite true with the politics of Telugu States. TDP and TRS have locked horns like never before during the separate state hood of Telangana and post-formation of the new state.
TRS led by KCR has tried every trick to embarrass Naidu including “catching” him in the Cash for Votes scam and even jailed its senior leader and MLA Revanth Reddy. KCR made sure all AP leaders move to Amaravati even before their new capital city is built. Despite that there is a lot of bad blood between Naidu and KCR, Chandrababu Naidu seems to be patching up with him for his own political reasons. With TDP almost wiped out in Telangana, a place where it had a strong foothold once, due to KCR, Chandrababu is now toying with the idea of forging an alliance with TRS in Telangana for the next general elections.
These plans, of course, are not going down well with Revanth, a staunch anti-KCR politician. Now, Revanth is making his plans to associate with Congress and wants to lead an anti-KCR force in run up to next polls.
Now, talk is that Revanth’s recent moves (meeting Rahul Gandhi) and recent remarks against Chandrababu, AP leaders may put him in trouble. Chandrababu is said to be preparing ground to the ousted of Revanth from the party. If Revanth exits, this will open doors from KCR and TRS.
The moot question is that will this really help TDP in Telangana and AP?