REPORTER’S DAIRY : Revanth uniting divided BRS house

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has contrasting sides to it. When it was in power; it looked more like a divided house, with its key leaders not tolerating one another’s presence in the same room. Today, adverse circumstances have brought in the bonding factor to keep it remarkably united, say insiders who have tracked the party from its heyday. As times have changed, so has their camaraderie. Ever since Revanth Reddy became the Chief Minister, the top leaders of BRS seem to have buried their hatchet, at least for public consumption.
It took nearly eleven months of political turbulence and promptings for compromise for these leaders to stand shoulder to shoulder.
What caused this miraculous turnaround? Some say it is not just the charm of opposition politics but also the looming specter of
raids and arrests. The raid on the house of the brother-in-law of BRS working president KT Rama Rao was apparently the final straw for the party circles as well as the cadre, who realized that the heat was directed not just at a few individuals but the extended Kalvakuntla family.
The constant threat of ‘arresting’ KTR in various ‘scams’ under lens has had the unintended consequence of forging a unity among even reluctant big rivals, let alone the rank and file. However, the Congress continues to pitch chinks in the armour by claiming that power struggle between Harish Rao and KTR is still on in BRS. So, at least for the sake of galleries, both the leaders are referring to each
other in their speeches and press meets to tone down the narrative. Politics, after all, makes strange bedfellows.