A national daily has reported that KVP Ramachandra Rao, the powerful advisor to the late CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is now controlling the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. The report mentioned that this was fully clear when a lightweight like Ponnala Lakshmaiah was appointed the first chief of TPCC last fortnight who is also more or less the chief minister candidate.
KVP is reportedly trying hard for an Assembly ticket for Sureedu from Kukatpally in Hyderabad who was officially the personal secretary of YSR and actually his personal attendant. Ponnala was initially far from the cause of a separate state when he was the irrigation minister in the YSR government and also for later governments.
The media report said that KVP ensured the appointment of Ponnala as Telangana Congress chief which was to ensure that the interests of irrigation contractors in the new state can be protected especially Jalayagnam which was the flagship welfare scheme launched by YSR.
While KVP who doled out the irrigation contracts worth thousands of crores every financial year during five-year YSR regime, it was Ponnala as the major irrigation minister who got the contracts executed and in case Congress comes to power in Telangana, Ponnala could end up as the CM such that that the interests of the irrigation contractors from Seemandhra will continue to be protected.
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