INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: With changes imminent in the political scenarios of the state across political parties, an interesting thing emerges from the
three main political parties in Telangana: it is inevitably time for the generation next to lead their respective parties for the battle
royale.If the Telangana Rashtra Samithi supremo K
Chandrasekhar Rao does indeed anoint son and minister K.T
already in control of the party as its working president and did lead the charge for the ruling pink party in the Greater Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation elections in both 2015 and 2020.While the former was a highlight and a highpoint of his career so far, the latter must
have given him a good sense of the kind of fight to expect from the opposition, in particular from the BJP.The dominant national party, the
Bharatiya Jana Party has appointed an aggressive young leader and a fighter, Karimanagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar as president of its state
This has shown immediate results and a successful narrative has been set that the BJP has replaced the Congress in the state as the
TRS, in particular against the Kalvakuntla family and the saffron party, as the unifying fulcrum of such anti-TRS force will form the next
government in Telangana.In particular, after Mr Sanjay took over the mantle of leadership of his dormant if nor moribund party, and
surprised everyone by leading it to a victory in the Dubbaka Assembly by-poll
It also delivered a stunning performance and became the second largest party in the GHMC, and pushed the TRS into a corner over formally
The party central leadership has backed him strongly since, including putting up a rooster of top notch speakers for the GHMC campaign
It is, therefore, moot to even discuss under whose leadership the BJP will fight the next state polls, in which they hope to dismantle the
TRS.Incidentally, the MIM has been led by a youthful leader for a long time, Asaduddin Owaisi, who has emerged as a national leader,
especially since 2014, where he is increasingly being seen as someone who has expanded his party and increasingly become the most important
The principal opposition party in the state when last Assembly poll results came out, the Congress party is still vacillating on the next
leader, who will likely replace incumbent Uttam Kumar Reddy.However, after several rounds of consultation under high public glare, it looks
in-charge Manickam Tagore was reportedly admonished by party president Sonia Gandhi for bungling the exercise and for not having been above
board and strictly neutral in the process
He was purportedly seen as biased and favouring Revanth Reddy, for which he was given an earful by the supremo.With the ruling out also of
several other leaders, old and young, from from Mallu Vikarmarka Bhatti to Ponnam Prabhakar to Sridhar Babu, the race is now largely limited
Between the two, while the former has age and health working against him, besides the fact that he was formerly in TDP, where Shashidhar
aggressive brand of politics will play out, with greater stakes
A generational change in surely underway
KCR belonged to a different league, being more contemporary with the likes of N
Chandrababu Naidu and late Y.S
Rajashekhara Reddy.As of today, K.T
Rama Rao has crossed 44 years of age while Bandi Sanjay is 49 years
Revanth Reddy or Komatireddy been in the race, they would have been in the pack at 51 and 56 years respectively, but current favourite
Jeevan Reddy and Shashidhar Reddy are in their sixties
But once Indian National Congress appoints Rahul Gandhi as president of as is expected, he will, at 51, make it a fight to remember of
generation next of politics.
