Controversial spiritual leader and Sree Peetham seer Swami Paripoornanand is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party and if possible contest the coming elections as well.Paripoornananda told a media agency that he might join the BJP if their ideologies match. He is being projected as the Yogi Adityanath of Telangana by the saffron groups.He said there was a possibility of him joining the BJP, provided he got an offer.

“If I have to join, then the party will choose me. But I cannot run after the party. At the same, our frequencies have to match,” he said.The Swamiji kicked up a controversy with his sharp attack on controversial film critic Kathi Mahesh who made inflammatory comments on Ramayana.Following his provocative comments against other religious communities, Paripoornananda was externed from Hyderabad on July 11 for six months by the Hyderabad police. However, the Telangana High Court reversed the ban after a petition was filed by the Hindu seer.

Paripoornananda dismissed the comparison with Yogi Adityanath. He said the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s political expertise was far greater than his.”I and Yogi Ji are of the same age bracket, but he has more political knowledge because he is a four-time Member of Parliament and he is known for his unique identity,” he said.Paripoornananda confirmed that he will be working with BJP leader T. Raja Singh in the coming elections, saying that, “whoever works for Hindutva, I will work with them.”

It will be curtains on the suspense over dissolution of the Telangana state assembly on Thursday afternoon.

The Telangana state cabinet is scheduled to meet under the leadership of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at around 1 pm and will pass a one-line resolution seeking dissolution of the assembly.

All the cabinet colleagues have been asked to come to Pragati Bhavan, the camp office of the chief minister, by noon.

The cabinet meeting it is expected to commence between 1 pm and 1.30 pm. There is no other official agenda except passing the one-line resolution on dissolving the state assembly.

Soon after the cabinet meeting, KCR and his cabinet colleagues will meet Governor E S L Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan to submit the copy of the cabinet resolution on dissolution of the state assembly.

Later, KCR will go to Telangana Martyrs Memorial at Gun Park in front of the state assembly to pay tributes to the martyrs and from there, he will go to Telangana Bhavan at Banjara Hills to address a press conference at 2 pm.

He will explain the reasons for his decision to dissolve the assembly and go for early elections in the state.

In the evening, the TRS chief will address a meeting of the outgoing MLAs and other functionaries at the Telangana Bhavan to make them gear up for the early elections.

With the election atmosphere building up in the Telangana state, it is more or less certain that veteran leader and Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP D Srinivas will come out of the party to decide his future course of action.

Since TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has not been taking any decision on the complaint made against him by Nizamabad MP K Kavitha and other TRS leaders from the district, DS felt he has no place in the party anymore.

Though he announced that he will not resign from the party on his own, he has no option but to do so because the state assembly is all set to be dissolved and it is going to early elections.

If he does not take any decision now, he will be lost out in the race. That is why, he wrote a letter to KCR on Tuesday asking the latter to suspend him.

Reports say DS has already got clearance from the Congress party high command for making a re-entry into the party.

In all probability, DS will re-join the Congress in the presence of the party chief Rahul Gandhi along with MLC Bhupati Reddy on September 12 or 13.

But the question is whether DS will continue in the Rajya Sabha seat to which he was nominated by the TRS president.

Sources close to him said DS wants to quit the Rajya Sabha seat and contest the state assembly elections on the Congress ticket from Nizamabad rural constituency.

By resigning from the RS seat, he also wants to show that he is a man of integrity.

However, it is learnt the state Congress leadership wants him to continue in the RS seat because it has become a practice now for all the political parties.

“When the Congress MLAs and MP who defected to the TRS can retain their posts, what’s wrong in DS retaining his Rajya Sabha seat? He still has four years to complete his term. He can happily continue as an MP, leaving the assembly seat to his son or his followers,” a Telangana Congress leader said.

Ever since Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced that he would expand his cabinet soon, he has been flooded with requests for several aspirants asking him to consider their names.

Reports from Amaravati said the aspirants are coming in tens to meet Naidu and submit their applications for the cabinet post.

Even those who defected from the YSR Congress party like Kidari Sarweswara Rao, Giddi Eswari and Vantala Rajeswari have thrown their hats into the ring.

Especially, women MLAs are hopeful to get a berth following reports that Naidu might consider a woman minister.

However, one of the two berths will definitely go to Muslims, as announced by Naidu at the public meeting of Muslims the other day at Guntur.

The name of Mohammad Shariff is said to have been finalised, but other Muslim MLAs like Chand Basha are also hopeful.

Naidu would fill up the vacancies arising out of the resignation of two BJP ministers – Paidikondala Manikyala Rao and Kamineni Srinivas.

While one berth is reserved for a Muslim MLA, there is a talk that Naidu should consider an ST MLA for the second berth.

The TDP has only one tribal MLA who had won on its ticket. He is Mudiyam Srinivasa Rao of Polavaram. If he is not considered, Naidu might prefer a woman candidate, sources said.

It was only on Tuesday that Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh denied the reports of a possible alliance between the TDP and the Congress party in Telangana in the ensuing assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

He even announced that the TDP was still strong enough to win considerable seats in Telangana and that it would contest in all the 119 assembly seats.

However, reliable sources revealed that both the TDP and the Congress had come to a formal understanding to have an alliance in the coming elections in Telangana.

According to these sources, the Congress has agreed to earmark 14 assembly seats and two MP seats in the state. This is to ensure that the opposition vote would not split so that it could defeat the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

Some of the seats where the TDP is likely to contest are: Kukatpally, Sherilingampalli, Jubilee Hills, Malkajgiri, Wanaparthi, Atmakur, Narayanpet, Jagityal, Parkal, Sattupalli and others, where the TDP still has strong cadres.

With regards to Lok Sabha seats, the TDP might ask for Malkajgiri and Mahbubabad.

“There could be some last minute adjustments depending on the demands and protests from the Congress ticket aspirants,” sources said.