REPORTERS’ DIARY : Why Alleti’s pressers are few and far between

Many scribes eagerly look forward to Bharatiya Janata Party Legislature Party (BJP LP) leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy’s press conferences because he often ends his pressers with a rather suspenseful statement: “I will come with another ‘blast’ in a day or two against the Congress government”. Yet, his conversations with media persons are few and far between. On May 2nd, when newshounds asked Maheshwar Reddy about the long gaps between his pressers, he said in a lighter vein that getting a time ‘slot’ to address the media at the State BJP office was the main impediment. A little bird told The Pioneer’s correspondent that official spokesperson NV Subash determines the time ‘slots’ for party leaders desirous of addressing the media, after obtaining permission from BJP Telangana unit president G Kishan Reddy. Maheshwar Reddy often seeks time one or two hours before scheduling his press meet. There lies the rub.