Even before the full mandate of Karnataka is out on May 15th and counting was still under way, BJP leaders in AP and Telangana have made very tall statements that this would be a set back to Chandrababu Naidu, the former ally of BJP.
In fact, Ram Madhav went ahead and stated that Chandrababu had tried all sorts of methods to stop BJP in Karnataka but he couldn’t.
GVL Narasimha Rao too made over-the-top comments and subsequently faced the ire of Telugu people as well.
If one takes the case of Somu Veerraju, it is much more weirder. A day before Karnataka result is out, i.e when BJP had announced Kanna Lakshminarayana as the AP BJP unit’s new chief, upset Somu Veerraju had gone into oblivion.
Somu Veerraju had gone missing while his hard-core followers resigned from the major posts such as district president and vice president posts. Many of his aides raised serious objection against former Congress minister Kanna being made as the BJP chief. In fact, at one stage, speculations had it that Somu Veerraju even planning to quit BJP against elevation of Kanna.
But all these objections of Somu Veerraju had just gone with the wind when the initial trends of Karnataka counting indicated a strong mandate towards BJP. Hurried Somu Veerraju had come out and denied all those reports. He had made it clear that he had no such intentions to quit party and all that propaganda was done by his detractors. He even clarified that the resignations of his close followers to party posts as their “personal” issue and it is nothing to do with him.
In his own way, Somu Veerraju had lashed out at Chandrababu saying that Karnataka verdict is a lesson to Naidu. He claimed that BJP will soon come to power in AP with the support of local parties (YSR Congress and Janasena).
Now that BJP suffered big defeat in Karnataka as its CM candidate Yeddyurappa admitted his failure to get numbers and resigned to his post much before facing the Floor Test, and Kumaraswamy of JD(S) who has the full support of Chandrababu is becoming the new CM of Karnataka, many are wondering what will Somu Veerraju would say.
As this is a first big blow to BJP in South, will he also admit that the same would be repeated in AP and Telangana too? What will be the position of Somu Veerraju who returned to BJP witnessing its victory in Karnataka. As BJP lost Karnataka, will Somu Veerraju again go back to his “upset” mode. A lot of questions need answers from Somu Veerraju. Needless to say that he would certainly avoid them.
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