On a day of swift developments in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) since Wednesday morning when the party leadership led by Nizamabad MP K. Kavitha and others launched no holds barred attack on Rajya Sabha member Dharmapuri Srinivas accusing him of indulging in anti-party activities, it is understood Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao himself had asked the senior leader to meet him.
Sources in the TRS and close aides of Mr. Srinivas maintained that four days ago, a TRS MP had telephoned the senior leader to come and meet Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao. Mr.Srinivas who was in New Delhi then said he would meet him on his return to Hyderabad.
Sources close to Mr. Srinivas told The Hindu that he expected to meet the Chief Minister on Wednesday. “He is visibly upset and hurt by the insinuations hurled by the TRS leaders in Nizamabad,” the sources added.
“People who know will easily make out that I have never betrayed the party I am in. I am known for my secular image and it is wrong to say that I am promoting my son Arvind,” the TRS MP is said to have told his followers on Wednesday after news broke about the resolution passed by TRS leaders seeking disciplinary action against him.
Upset by the charges, Mr. Srinivas, it is learnt, remarked that all elected representatives from the district came together to hurt him and his family. He told his supporters that his son had charted an independent course and was quite active in BJP now a days. “My son is actively moving among the people and what right have I to stop him from working with another party. How can I be blamed for not controlling him,” he was quoted as telling leaders who met him.
It is learnt that Mr. Srinivas is not in a hurry to meet the Chief Minister. “I will wait for what Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao has to say when I meet him,” he is said to have observed while meeting his close aides.