After several rounds of discussions and postponement till last minute, TRS president KCR has finally allotted Musheerabad ticket to Mutha Gopal. There was intense competition for Musheerabad ticket between Mutha Gopal and caretaker Home Minister Nayini Narasimha Reddy.
While Mutha Gopal is the president of TRS BC Cell, Nayini Narasimha Reddy is the caretaker Home Minister and very close to KCR. He has been with KCR since the launch of TRS and has sailed with KCR even during difficult times. Therefore Nayini has become close to KCR and emerged as one of the trusted lieutenants of Telangana CM. Nayini wanted Musheerabad seat for his son-in-law Srinivas Reddy, who is serving as corporator now.
As Mutha Gopal and Nayini Narasimha Reddy vied for Musheerabad seat intensely, KCR has put it on hold. KCR also faced lot of criticism from Opposition parties over Musheerabad seat, as his opponents alleged that KCR is not even giving appointment to Home Minister Nayini and neglecting those who have served party since initial days. As a result KCR was in a fix.
While Nayini served TRS since its launch and supported KCR even in the toughest of times, Mutha Gopal joined TRS just before 2014 polls. While Mutha Gopal lost 2014 polls, Nayini’s son-in-law Srinivas Reddy won as corporator. While Mutha Gopal might attract votes from BC community, Srinivas Reddy might attract support of Reddys and traditional TRS voterbase.
After much thinking, KCR has finally selected Mutha Gopal, to send signals that he has given importance to BCs. While this might be a gain for KCR on onside, there is also another side to it. KCR already has the image of using people when he needs and ignoring them later. With none other Nayini Narasimha Reddy, who has been a trusted and loyal aide of KCR unable to get a ticket, political circles are abuzz with discussion that KCR has given more importance to vote bank politics than friendship.
It has to be seen whether KCR’s decision will give him edge in Musheerabad. Because even the other two strong candidates, Anil Kumar Yadav from Congress and K Lakshman from BJP are BCs and have more hold on Musheerabad constituency than Mutha Gopal. Anil’s father Anjan Kumar Yadav served twice as Secunderabad MP and is president of Greater Hyderabad Congress. He has lot of connect with the people in the constituency. Lakshman is BJP’s Telangana president and is respected by educated and middle class people as a clean politician. Lakshman represented Musheerabad twice and is approachable by local people.
Thus, if Mutha Gopal is unable to win in Musheerabad, then KCR’s decision to even keep aside friendship and loyalty in favour of Mutha Gopal will go in vain.
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