A strong lobby of Kapus is said to be behind the planting of reports in a section of media that the Congress high command has decided to nominate Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi to Rajya Sabha in place of veteran Rajya Sabha member and former Chief Minister N Janardhan Reddy.
According to these reports, the Congress high command reportedly asked NJR to resign from the parliament membership and make way for Chiranjeevi in the by-elections to Rajya Sabha. NJR was re-nominated to Rajya Sabha in 2010 and if he resigns to pave way for Chiranjeevi, the latter would continue as MP for another five years.
In return for his sacrifice, NJR would be elevated as Governor, while Chiranjeevi would be inducted into the Central cabinet. But, sources close to NJR say the speculations are the handiwork of a Kapu lobby in the state, which desperately want Chiranjeevi to get into the Central cabinet. This lobby obviously does not want Chiranjeevi to remain in the state so that he would not be projected as the chief ministerial candidate in 2014.
“Once Chiranjeevi merges his party with the Congress and takes up the Central minister post, his career in the state is more or less finished, so that he would not come in the way of other strong Kapu politicians in the state,” an analyst pointed out.
The only way to send Chiranjeevi to the Centre is to make NJR a scapegoat. The reason is that NJR is at the fag end of his political career and he would be too happy to accept the governor’s post and leave the RS seat to Chiranjeevi. But NJR is said to be more interested in Cental cabinet post, rather than the Governor post, sources say.
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