Within in three days after a senior TRS leader Ramesh Rathod from Adilabad district joined Congress, another senior leader KS Ratnam from Ranga Reddy district announced joining Congress soon.

He is expecting ticket from Chevella assembly constituency. Disappointed over not announcing his name in the list of 105 candidates by KCR recently, Ratnam decided to switch loyalties to Congress and test the waters in the forthcoming Telangana assembly elections. Ratnam is one of the senior most Congress leaders in Reddy dominated Rangareddy district before joining TRS. He was one of the close associates of YS Rajashekhara Reddy.

Ramesh Rathod was the strong leader in tribal-dominated Adilabad. He was former MP and also MLA from TDP. He joined TRS in 2016 after KCR made the promise of providing a plum post.

Some more TRS leaders from Nalgonda, Khammam, Nizamabad and Karimnagar made up their mind to quit KCR party for not giving them party tickets to contest elections.

With TRS Supremo KCR is busy with preparing political strategy and getting ready to kick start nearly 100 public meetings in the next 50 days, senior leader Harish Rao has been given the responsibility of looking after political affairs if Gajwel assembly constituency from where KCR was elected in 2014 elections and contest in the ensuing elections also.

KCR was elected from Gajwel with a majority of 20,000 votes in last elections. From now onwards, Harish will take care of local political affairs in Gajwel. He already held a meeting with people of a village in KCR’s constituency and adopted a resolution that all voters will vote in support of TRS chief.

Harish will take up poll campaign in Gajwel in the next 50 days. KCR will attend one or two public meetings only. Leaders said that recognising poll management skills of Harish, KCR entrusted the young leader the responsibility of his victory with a huge margin.

Harish already announced that KCR will win by a margin of one lakh votes this time. In fact, Harish was the only leader who won elections with the highest majority of one lakh votes in 2014 elections. Hope Harish will get more majority to KCR than him in the ensuing elections.

Jana Sena leader Pawan Kalyan usually makes critical comments against political leaders. Now, it appears that he is expressing anger at his own partymen too. He did not hesitate to warn his fans and Jana Sena supporters. “Just by getting flexis and banners erected, one can’t become a leader. A leader should work without giving room to egos and personal feelings,” Pawan Kalyan said.

During his visit to the ‘Rottela Panduga’ in Nellore district, Pawan met with Jana Sena leaders in a hotel. During the meeting, a party activist expressed her anger and said that the local leaders are not giving due importance to party activists in the town. She alleged that there is no recognition in the party even though she worked hard for the cause of Jana Sena.

Immediately, Pawan Kalyan lost his cool and slammed the leaders. He asked the local leaders to put aside their ego and welcome everyone into the party. He urged the leaders not to divide anyone with their egoistic attitude. However, the remarks have caught the leaders off-guard. Some of them felt that Pawan Kalyan should have expressed his opinions in a subtle way rather expressing anger in an outright manner.

On the other hand, Pawan seems to be deeply worried about the impending ego issues that will internally damage Janasena just when he is keen on strengthening the party from the grassroot level in view of the upcoming general elections. Pawan must have been wary about how the opposition parties had to face setbacks due to the ego issues of several leaders.