No doubt, KCR’s master plan rewrote history of Telugus leading to formation of separate Telangana. As KCR was implementing his strategies for that, top leaders of both Congress and TDP at that time just watched helplessly. KCR’s ultimate stroke was that he got all the credit for Telangana formation while it was the Congress which actually gave it as it was running the government at the Centre at that particular moment.

Now again, KCR is planning hard to rewrite the destiny of national politics by playing king maker role in Delhi. How can he do that with just 17 MPs in Telangana? It is very simple. He can just make sure his secretly friendly party YSR Congress Party win as many MP seats as possible and claim joint score in Telugu States to dictate terms to the NDA or UPA or whichever front that falls short of majority in 2019 election.

Race for power has not turned into greed for more more. This is particularly applicable for KCR who seems over confident after recent resounding victory. Luckily for him, the politicians in AP are a too much divided lot and no two Andhra politicians agree with one another. You see the long list of players in AP – TDP, YCP, Jana Sena Party, Lok Satta, Praja Shanti Party, CBI ex JD Laximanarayana’s party, CPI, CPM and so on and so forth. No wonder, KCR wants to hijack AP politics once again.

G.Ravikiran