{"id":110618,"date":"2017-11-09T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=110618"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:53:37","slug":"pipe-dreams-kodandaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pipe-dreams-kodandaram\/","title":{"rendered":"The pipe dreams of Kodandaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">T-JAC chairman Prof M Kodandaram is getting ready to launch a new political party in Telangana to fight the 2019 elections it is reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also identified potential candidates in key constituencies, where there is a strong anti-establishment atmosphere prevailing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, political analysts doubt how far Kodandaram will succeed in tackling the mighty TRS and its leader K Chandrasekhar Rao.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4366_Kodandaram.jpg\" alt=\"The pipe dreams of Kodandaram\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the professor succeeds, he will emerge as another Kejriwal down south or end up like Jayaprakash Narayan of Lok Satta, who converted his NGO into a political party and later disappeared from the political scene as fast as he came.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TRS had won the last elections purely based on the Telangana sentiment. This time, it is going to be difficult without party organisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Kodandaram does not have the ambition of becoming the chief minister, the Congress may not feel any threat from his party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It remains to be seen how far Kodandaram will succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-JAC chairman Prof M Kodandaram is getting ready to launch a new political party in Telangana to fight the 2019 elections it is reported. He has also identified potential candidates in key constituencies, where there is a strong anti-establishment atmosphere prevailing. However, political analysts doubt how far Kodandaram will succeed in tackling the mighty TRS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[13221,1964,56831,56830,56829,49,56828,351],"class_list":["post-110618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-2019-elections","tag-k-chandrasekhar-rao","tag-new-political-party","tag-prof-m-kodandaram","tag-t-jac-chairman","tag-telangana","tag-the-pipe-dreams-of-kodandaram","tag-trs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kodandaram.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}