Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s recent growing rapport with Prime Minister Narendra Modi putting local BJP MLAs in irksome position. With his well-crafted diplomacy, he is attempting to cultivate good rapport with union ministers, so that to promote interests of the state, but simply ignoring local BJP MLAs.

Though most of BJP MLAs are competing to be in `good looks’ of the Chief Minister for their own vested interests, Rao is not known took them serious or trying to involve them in any consultations.

A senior BJP leader deplored that though KCR resorting to ignore BJP and create all possible hurdles for its growth in the state, party’s lone MP and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya is functioning like Telangana government’s representative in New Delhi. On his own, he is meeting several union ministers seeking speedy release of funds under various schemes to the state government.

Other union ministers, who visits Hyderabad directly contacting Chief Minister and hardly involving local BJP MLAs or even visiting party office here. A BJP state office bearer said he found it difficult to meet a union minister, who recently visited the state, as he was pre-occupied with Chief Minister and other ministers.

This week, Union Minister of Youth Affairs Vijay Goel, who had interacted with Chandrasekhar Rao left the city appreciating KCR’s pro-poor initiatives. After known about the housing scheme during his meeting with the Chief Minister, on the next day he directly went to Eravelli village in Medak district, where the government has built double bedroom houses for the poor and seen those houses. On his return appreciating the Chief Minister, he said “Like Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working hard in the country for the welfare of the poor, a similar effort I found here.”