Firebrands MLAs Jagga Reddy, Raghunandan Rao Unusually Silent

Sangareddy MLA and senior Congress leader T Jagga Reddy and Dubbaka MLA and BJP leader M Raghunandan Rao are important leaders of the two major parties in Telangana. They are also firebrand leaders, who verbally decimate their opponents. Such strident leaders are now maintaining silence themselves. They are staying away from State politics, and confining themselves to their own Assembly constituencies.

The two leaders hail from the combined Medak district, which is also the home district of CM K Chandrashekar Rao.

Raghunandan Rao, who has emerged as a prominent leader in the BJP, helped it connect with the people of the State. However, he now appears to be observing a vow of silence, not uttering a single word. He is said to be sore with the BJP's national leadership. Though the BJP has given posts to many leaders in the State, Rao has been sidelined by the party high command. The latest buzz is that he is likely to leave the BJP.

Jagga Reddy, who targets his own party more than the opposition, is also not speaking anywhere these days. With the elections approaching, his silence has now become a matter of debate. He seems to have turned completely quiet especially after the Karnataka Assembly results, and the stoic silence of the man who has always targeted Revanth Reddy has become a hot topic in the corridors of politics of the Congress now.

His supporters are saying that Jagga Reddy is lying low as Revanth Reddy's era is currently going on in the Congress, and say that their leader is silent because the party high command will not accept any kind of criticism of Revanth Reddy by Jagga Reddy.

Meanwhile, Jagga Reddy's positive equation with CM KCR has benefited him - a medical college has been given to his Assembly constituency Sangareddy. There is also talk that he is planning to leave the Congress to join the BRS in the days to come.