A day after KCR announced amid much fanfare the renaming of TRS as BRS (Bharat Rashtra Samithi), there is a deafening silence among the politicians at the national level. There is no buzz whatsoever and no leader worth his salt cared to comment on it. Thus, the renaming ceremony that KCR organised was no earth-shaking event at all at the national level.
Neither the DMK nor Udhav Thackeray chose to comment on the development. Bihar, where KCR recently distributed ex-gratia to the martyrs of Galvan clash, too did not react to KCR’s announcement. In Punjab, KCR disbursed ex-gratia to the farmers who died during the farm stir. But no leader from Punjab chose to speak in KCR’s new gamble.
Leaders like Arvind Kejriwal, Mamta Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejaswi Yadav and Hemant Soren too remained silent. KCR met most of these leaders several times and some flew to Hyderabad to hold consultations with KCR. Most importantly, the national leadership of the BJP, whom KCR specifically targeted, too did not react.
The biggest shock came from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Not only did YS Jagan Mohan Reddy not react, even the Opposition TDP and Pawan Kalyan of the Jana Sena remained silent. As if to rub salt to the wounds, YSRCP leader and Minister Jogi Ramesh said that there would be no impact of the BRS in Andhra Pradesh.