Union Minister G Kishan Reddy is now in a spot of bother. He is increasingly finding that he is being upstaged by the other leaders in the state party. The youth and the cadre have already gone into Bandi Sanjay’s fold. Bandi Sanjay himself is very active in some agitational programmes or the other. As a result, Kishan Reddy is finding himself overshadowed.

With Modi-Shah Combine giving him key tasks like talking to Kashmiri pandits for their resettlement and to coordinate in the North East, he is finding little time for Hyderabad, let alone Telangana. During the weekends, he is occupied by programmes in Hyderabad. As a result, all this is leaving no time for party work. Due to this, he is increasingly getting cut off from the cadres.

Another major problem for him is that Eatala Rajender is making his moves in a mercurial way. Eatala is talking to various dissidents in both the Congress and the TRS. He is trying to bring them in to the party. Also, he is slowly trying to ingratiate himself to the party cadres. In fact, he has attended more party workers training camps than Kishan Reddy could.

Kishan Reddy is now finding that the ground is slipping from beneath his feet and both Sanjay and Eatala are occupying the ground that he is losing. To add insult to injury, he was told by the party national leadership not to put spokes in Sanjay’s work. This effectively means that he is confined to his ministry and his constituency. All these developments are said to be unnerving G Kishan Reddy these days.