If all goes well, former Indian Cricket captain and congress leader Mohd Azharuddin will be the next Telangana Congress President. Strong speculations during round in the party high command in New Delhi that AICC President Sonia Gandhi is very much disappointed over the Telangana Congress President N Uttam Kumar Reddy and CLP leader K Jana Reddy who failed to stop the Congress leaders, MPs, MLAs and MLCs from shifting their loyalties to ruling TRS.
Out of 19 congress MLAs , only 12 have been left in the Congress. One among the two MPs elected from Telangana, Gutha Sukhender Reddy already joined TRS.Sources said that since all the existing leaders failed to strengthen the party after its debacle in 2014 election, Congress high command is seriously planning to rope in a charismatic figure who could counter KCR’s popularity. The party high command also considered veteran film star Vijayashanthi and fire brand DK Aruna for the TPCC Chief post. However, the party preferred to give the post to Azhar.
Azhar elected MP from Uttar Pradesh in 2009 election and in 2014 election he lost the election from Rajasthan. He was close confident of Rahul Gandhi. A decision on the replaces of the present TPCC leadership would be taken only after Rahul Gandhi returned India from his foreign tour.