Chiru left high and dry, as Cong hurts his pride

Completely pre-occupied with the Telangana tangle, the Congress leadership has no time for its recent political catch—Chiranjeevi.

After securing his support and acquiring his 30-month-old Praja Rajyam Party, the Congress has stopped involving him in any of its strategy sessions.

Added to his woes is the ruling party’s decision not to have a PRP-Congress merger rally in a big way. In fact, the high command is planning to invite Chiranjeevi and some his senior associates to Delhi and honour them with Congress “Kanduvas” to mark the formal merger of PRP with Congress.

There will be no big public meeting, as planned earlier. It is said that neither the Congress President Sonia Gandhi nor her son Rahul Gandhi is keen to hold a pompous show to mark the merger. With this, the hopes of Chiranjeevi to organize a show of strength have been dashed.

Another reason for Congress’ reluctance to hold a merger rally is that it does not want to send wrong signals to the Telangana supporters within the party. Chiranjeevi and his colleagues are strong votaries of integrated state.

In several of his block-busters, the megastar had rescued the damsels in distress. Now, he needs some divine intervention to rescue his self-pride.