With just five months left for the conduct of assembly elections in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has begun playing the Telangana sentiment card all over again, obviously to win the elections.
While inaugurating the Telangana martyrs’ memorial, a massive construction at Lumbini park on the banks of Hussain Sagar, on Thursday, the chief minister has also decided to felicitate the families of those who had sacrificed their lives for the sake of Telangana.
As part of that, the BRS leadership sent a message to Sankaramma, mother of Srikantha Chary, who was the first person to immolate himself at L B Nagar chowrastha in 2009 for the sake of Telangana.
On instructions from KCR, state power minister G Jagadish Reddy is bringing Sankaramma to Hyderabad from Nalgonda on Thursday.
Sources said KCR may announce nomination of Sankaramma for the MLC seat under Governor’s quota.
Sankaramma, who had been in the BRS for the last four years, is said to be terribly upset with the party leadership for ignoring her. There was a talk that she might shift loyalties to the Congress.
Under these circumstances, KCR wants to checkmate the opposition by making her MLC, so that it would send a positive message to all the families of martyrs and people ahead of the elections, sources said.