Senior Congress party leader and Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao always maintains a very low profile in politics, except on issues like Polavaram major irrigation project.
Not many people know that though KVP has been loyal to the Congress party, he has a very close relationship with YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. KVP’s family and that of Jagan’s father late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy have been very close friends and it is still continuing even after YSR’s premature death in September 2009.
During the house-warming ceremony of Jagan at Tadepalli, it was KVP’s wife who had played active role in making arrangements, eye-witnesses said. There is a talk that Jagan still looks up to the advice of KVP in crucial times.
In an interview to a television channel, KVP made some interesting comments on Jagan.
“My relationship with Jagan was not an ordinary one, but a special one, which cannot be broken so easily. It is purely personal and has nothing to do with politics,” he said.
He reminded that he had been a friend of YSR right from the college days and much before the latter entered politics.
“I have known Jagan since his birth, so the bondage much stronger,” he said.
KVP said he won’t be able to explain openly why he was not supporting Jagan and it was not an appropriate time to discuss it.
The Congress MP, however, said he had never come in the way of Jagan, who had chosen to take his own political line.
“I have been a Congress loyalist and whatever the high command says, I will follow its directions religiously,” he said.
Stating that the Congress high command had never sought his opinion or help in bringing Jagan back into the Congress fold or seeking his support to the Congress at the Centre.
“But if the high command orders me to take the initiative in this regard, I will definitely accept it,” KVP said.