It has been two months since Bandi Sanjay has assumed office as BJP Telangana state president. He has been missing not even a single opportunity to criticize the inefficiency and apathy of TRS government, particularly of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. He is putting the TRS government in a spot over ‘commissions and omissions’. Sanjay has been touring the state relentlessly flaying the government over its failures on various fronts including tackling COVID and coming to the rescue of flood-hit people of Warangal. He is frequently seen addressing media or party supporters wearing facemask.
He even called upon people during his Warangal tour to confront the CM who confined himself to farmhouse while people are reeling under floods. He is holding press meets almost daily at Hyderabad party office to castigate the government’s failures. All said and done, his loyalists in the party are lamenting that he is fighting a lonely battle.
They point to the fact that no senior party leader has visited the party office and spent an hour since Sanjay has taken reins. There are no signs of his predecessor Dr. K Laxman meeting and discussing party affairs with him. Apart from Sanjay, the party has four MPs in the state. While G Kishan Reddy is busy on account of being the Union Minister of State, none of the remaining two – Dharmapuri Aravind or Soyam Bapu Rao – have visited the party office.
It has been months since party senior leaders Indrasena Reddy, Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, N Ramachandra Rao, D K Aruna and sole MLA of BJP Raja Singh visited the party state office. Loyalists see this as non-cooperation of party senior leaders to Bandi Sanjay. They wonder if the situation is like this even before full party executive body was announced, how things would be after the new body is constituted.
The party leaders have already polarized into Reddy and non-Reddy BC factions. Analysts opine that another faction in the form of pro-Sanjay will spell doom to the party’s efforts to become an alternative to TRS in the next elections.
Party sources are insisting that Sanjay alone cannot take the party forward and any future programmes will succeed only if all leaders join hands.
