Ex-Telangana min reaches Delhi, to meet Amit Shah, Nadda

HYDERABAD: Former Telangana health minister Eatala Rajender, who was dropped from the cabinet in the middle of the pandemic, left for New Delhi on Sunday evening amid speculation that he will soon join the BJP.
His Delhi trip assumes significance as he is touted to be meeting BJP leaders JP Nadda on Monday morning, sources confirmed, and Union home minister Amit Shah later. He left for Delhi along with senior BJP leader G Vivek and former TRS MLA Enugu Ravinder Reddy.
Eatala, who had considerable stature within the TRS party, was dropped from the cabinet following his alleged involvement in a land encroachment case for his poultry farm, a charge denied by the family.
Eatala was in consultation with Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee and state BJP unit ever since he was dropped from the cabinet and has not denied speculation of his joining the BJP.
Despite countering the TRS regime on the allegations, Eatala has not resigned either from the party or relinquished the post of Huzurabad MLA.
The Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat, under which the Huzurabad assembly constituency falls, is currently represented by BJP state president Bandi Sanjay and in the past, was held by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Eatala, a strong face from the Telangana statehood movement, has been alleging that Telangana ideologues are being ignored in the TRS. Sources in BJP told TOI that Union minister of state for home affairs G Kishan Reddy and Telangana BJP state president Bandi Sanjay also will be in Delhi, coinciding with Eatala’s two-day trip to the national capital.