After decimating the Opposition parties in the state, is Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao now moving his pawns to crush the TJAC headed by M Kodandaram before it emerges as an political adversary in the state?
This question is gaining importance in political circles following the sudden fissures surfacing in the TJAC.
As is known, the state administration ensured that the unemployed youth rally in the city called for by Kodandaram was foiled by using the police machinery to arrest Kodandaram and scores of other leaders of the initiative in the wee hours of the day the rally was to take place defying the court and police ban orders.
Interestingly, on the eve of the proposed rally, TRS leaders including Peddapally MP Balka Suman, who supported and praised Kodandaram to the hilt and responded to his numerous agitation programs during the thick of the separate Telangana movement, suddenly trained their guns against him for raising his voice against KCR and the TRS government.
What is more, the same TRS cadre and the same leaders of various employees organizations which participated in numerous dharnas, rail rokos and the Million March upon the call given by the TJAC under the leadership of Kodandaram and even courted arrest, have changed tack now, backing him no more.
Then, Pittala Ravinder and two other leaders of the TJAC launched a broadside against Kodandaram and accused him of a "feudal mentality". They even asked him what sacrifices he had made for the cause of statehood for Telangana, and told him that they had gifted him the post of the Chairman of TJAC.
All of these factors appear to hint at a "hidden hand" triggering fissures in the TJAC.