Nothing seems to be going right for senior YSRCP leader Botsa Satyanarayana. His position in the cabinet is hanging by a slender thread. YS Jagan wants to send him to the Rajya Sabha so that a younger leader could take over. His attempts to bring his son into politics have not completely taken shape. As if all these were not enough, he now is facing another major threat to his leadership. The threat is not from any outsider, but from his inner coterie.

Botsa’s nephew China Srinu has always been known as his Man Friday. It was he who used to handle the constituency as Botsa focused on state politics. Even Botsa used to refer any task to Chinna Srinu. But, now Chinna Srinu is the ZP chairperson of Vizianagaram. He is slowly coming into his own. More and more MLAs in the district are now pally with him. Even Botsa’s arch rival and MLA Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy is moving closer to Chinna Srinu.

Both Chinna Srinu and Kolagatla paired up and grabbed the posts of mayor and deputy mayor in the Vizianagaram corporation elections. Similarly, Chinna Srinu’s camp follower Indukuri Raghu Raju was nominated for the MLC seat. Botsa is viewing all these attempts to upstage him with alarm. Similarly, Nellimarla MLA B Appala Naidu too is seen moving closely with Chinna Srinu. Together, Chinna Srinu and Naidu have sidelined Botsa’s brother Lakshmana Rao.

Botsa is reportedly upset that Chinna Srinu is being encouraged by the party’s top leadership. He is unhappy that Chinna Srinu finds ready audience in Tadepalli. The differences have become so deep that both Botsa and Chinna Srinu came separately for the Paiditalli Ammavaru’s Jatara. The differences between Botsa and Chinna Srinu are now the hot topic of debate.