The Bus Yatra of KCR has instilled confidence in the BRS cadres. But what if the BRS loses heavily in the MP elections? KCR and KTR claim around a dozen seats.
But the ground reality is different. Many of them it will be one or none for the BRS. They are banking on Medak heavily.
BRS sources said the bus yatra had stopped another set of four BRS MLAs from joining the Congress.
Sunita Laxma Reddy from Narsapur, Kotha Prakash Reddy from Dubbaka, Banda Prakash from Rajendranagar and Mahipal Reddy from Patancheru had all met Revanth Reddy just before Chandrashekar Rao embarked on the bus yatra and it was speculated that they would join the Congress.
However, they have not joined the Congress so far. The bus yatra by the party chief forced the BRS leaders to pause and watch the situation. BRS sources said that the party candidates had given a creditable performance in the Lok Sabha elections at the Medak, Khammam, Mahbubabad and Secunderabad constituencies and hoped to win at least two seats, though the party was pinning its hopes on Medak.
It has to be seen what will Harish Rao do after the results. There are rumours that the BJP has been in touch with Harish. There is also a talk that some more leaders this time would shift to the BJP from the BRS.
How will KCR stop them has to be seen. BRS giving a MLC seat to Rakesh from BJP is not taken in the right spirit by the aspirants. Rakesh just joined the BRS and got the MLC seat to contest.
We have to wait and see how things change after the results on 4th June.
