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?

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