Strange are the ways of former minister and once a prominent Congress party leader from Mydukuru assembly constituency in Kadapa district D L Ravindra Reddy.
Once considered a favourite leader of former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, DLR has become an outdated politician in the district as nobody acknowledges him in the present-day politics.
Yet, he comes out of his shell now and then and makes some strange comments, only to go back into the shell once again. After the collapse of the Congress party, DLR, too, lost his glory.
He made an attempt to get into the TDP but after he failed to get any positive response form there, he joined the YSRC before 2019 elections. And when he did not get any post or position, he started attacking Jagan now and then.
On Wednesday, DLR claimed that he was still in the YSRC and he was feeling ashamed of it, because right from the day one of coming into power, Jagan Mohan Reddy proved to be a corrupt politician.
“I never expected that being the son of late Rajasekhar Reddy, Jagan would turn so much corrupt. He is not going to win the elections again. It will be great if YSRC can get a single digit in the next assembly elections,” DLR claimed.
One wonders how DLR could claim himself to be a member of YSRC, because he had never participated in any of the party programmes.
He is nowhere to be seen in Jagan’s review meetings or in the Gadapa Gadapaku Prabhutvam programme.
“He has not attended the party plenary held in July and nobody knows whether he has renewed his party membership or not. So, how can he claim to be a YSRC member?” a party leader asked.
In the same breath, DLR was all praise for TDP president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
“Nobody can save the state except Naidu. I am sure he will join hands with a sincere leader like Pawan Kalyan and liberate AP from the clutches of Jagan,” he said.
A few months ago, too, DLR declared that he would contest the 2024 assembly elections from Mydukuru assembly constituency in Kadapa district, from a prominent political party.
Interestingly, he criticised the TDP at that time.
“The main opposition TDP has failed to attend to the real issues of the people,” he said.
DLR, who began his political career way back as an independent from Mydukuru assembly constituency in Kadapa district in 1978, represented the constituency for five more times from 1983 to 2014.
He was in the state cabinet of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy holding the portfolio of roads and buildings. But after the bifurcation of the combined Andhra Pradesh, Ravindra Reddy lost his glory like any other senior Congress leader.