Congress's discomfiture grows as TRS back in House

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi which is back with renewed mandate in the state Assembly after a gap of 10 months is at its old game again, this time giving sleepless nights to the government by cornering it on the issue of scrapping of cases against the pro-Telangana students.

Apart from this, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, championing the cause of a separate state, is like rubbing salt on the injuries on the new Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has rushed to New Delhi on Saturday for the Congress-ruled States Chief Ministers meet.   

The TRS MLAs had quit in February on the contentious Telangana issue, and interestingly all of them have been given the mandate again to represent the electorate in the Assembly in the by-elections held in July. It has a strength of 11 members in the 294-member House.

The state government has been forced to make a statement in the House on the withdrawal of cases, which has already figured in the discussion the Chief Ministers had with Ministers and MLAs today. Possibly a statement to this affect will be made on Monday if the House is allowed to go on uninterrupted.  

A matter of interest to the readers is, that this is also first time that a session will be managed with no fulltime Speaker after N Kiran Kumar Reddy took the state's reins under his control with the blessings of the Congress High Command.

The Congress' Plenary which is scheduled to start from December 18, is another event that will keep the leaders busy. But the main issue is Andhra Pradesh and the issues confronting the state. Adding to the Congress’ discomfort, the spectre of former Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s yet to be announced party raising its head is another issue.

The issue of Deputy Chief Minister and the naming of a new Speaker is another important expectation from all.

How will they find time and energy for resolving all these issues will be extremely interesting for political observers.