In a significant development in less than 24 hours after former PCC President D. Srinivas publicly expressed disenchantment with the Congress leadership, his meeting with Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao triggered widespread speculation that he will announce his date for joining the ruling party.
Mr. Srinivas, according to sources, rushed to meet the Chief Minister at the Camp office all alone. The meeting apparently was facilitated after a senior TRS Minister telephoned Mr. Srinivas urging him to meet the Chief Minister immediately.
The meeting is still on and indications available suggest that Mr. Srinivas is expected to speak to the media to announce the date of entry into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Incidentally, Nizamabad district to which Mr. Srinivas belongs had returned nine MLAs from the TRS to the Assembly in last year’s elections. The former PCC president himself contested and lost the polls from Nizamabad rural Assembly constituency in the hands of his one-time party man Bajireddy Goverdhan, now a TRS MLA.
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Even as the meeting with Chief Minister was on, top State level Congress leaders led by TPCC president N.Uttam Kumar Reddy, working President Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and former Ministers – D.Sridhar Babu and D.K. Aruna rushed to Mr. Srinivas’s residence in Jubilee Hills to make a last ditch effort to pacify him. But, by the time, they reached his residence, Mr. Srinivas had already started of for Chief Minister’s camp office.