Will Naidu become another Bhajan Lal?

 Telugu Desam Party Chief N.Chandrababu Naidu seems to have made a U turn vis-à-vis his stand on the coal scam that shook the country following the extension of his bonhomie with the Congress in AP to national level.

Telugu Desam Party Chief N.Chandrababu Naidu seems to have made a U turn vis-à-vis his stand on the coal scam that shook the country following the extension of his bonhomie with the Congress in AP to national level.

Naidu, who as late as Aug 28 demanded Manmohan Singh’s resignation for his alleged involvement in the coal scam, changed his stand and asserted there was no need for the PM to resign on the issue.

Naidu’s statement, which came soon after his secret meeting with the PM in Delhi on Sept 6, confirms the talk he has been in cahoots with the Congress leadership. The only point to be noted down on the issue is Naidu’s secret pact with the Congress, hitherto limited to AP, has now been extended to Delhi.

And what could be the motive behind this secret meeting? Was it meant to know the mind of the Congress leadership on the T issue? This could not be possibly so as reports indicated that party president Sonia Gandhi alone has been handling the Telangana issue.

The one to one five minute meeting between Naidu and the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh after the TDP delegation’s talks with him on the BC declaration has given rise to speculation that something has been cooking between the two parties against YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Were the details of a conspiracy against Jagan discussed in the secret meeting to ensure he would not come out of the jail soon?

The secret meeting between Naidu and PM, coming in the wake of recent survey reports that Telugu Desam party’s image as a political party is on the brink with Jagan being favoured as CM by majority people, gains significance as political observers think that Naidu can stoop to any level to save his political future.

Already, several top politicians of TDP have either joined the YSRCP or announced their plans to join the party in the near future. In this backdrop, observers feel, TDP is at its game plan to save its political skin in the state by trying to ensure that Jagan wouldn’t come out of the jail.

Is the Naidu-PM secret meeting will lead to an unabashed overt honeymoon between the Congress and TDP? Will Naidu become the Bhajan Lal of the South before the 2014 elections by merging his party with the Congress to take on the Jagan Juggernaut?

Is the recent suggestion by four Congress MPs to Naidu that both parties should join hands to downsize the growing popularity of Jagan on its way to become a reality?