HYDERABAD: What’s TDP rebel MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy up to? Following his meeting with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, there’s a spring in the step of the separatist party’s cadres for, they believe, all T warriors will have to one day or the other come to their nest.This, notwithstanding Nagam’s clarification Sunday that the TRS chief had wanted him to join the party but that he had politely declined to do so. Nagam along with fellow rebel MLAs T Hareeshwar Reddy and Jogu Ramanna had met Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday night to seek his support for their proposed two-day hunger strike beginning July 2.The TRS leadership’s strategy is to first rope in the TDP’s T legislators into the movement and later, absorb them so as to be ready to sweep the polls in 2014. The TRS believes Nagam would have no other option but to knock on its doors. The issue of “engineering defections” is likely to be discussed at the TRS state executive meeting on June 28. The party has found that of the 36 TDP legislators in Telangana, not more than 10 are associating with the Telangana Telugu Desam Forum.The TRS cadres believe the remaining MLAs are not keen on associating themselves with the TDP for fear of a backlash in their constituencies.
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