Eatala rides to glory on people power
The Hindu
‘They forgot Eatala is for Huzurabad what KCR is for Telangana’
Leaders were strongly by the side of TRS candidate Gellu Srinivas Yadav but people preferred to be with Eatala Rajender of the BJP.
That puts in perspective the victory of Mr. Rajender in Huzurabad by-poll. TRS supremo and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao ensured that not a single leader of his party in Huzurabad constituency joined Mr. Rajender from the moment the latter resigned as MLA after he was dropped from the Council of Ministers.
As the by-election became inevitable, one or two TRS leaders who directly or indirectly pledged support to Mr. Rajender too were made to come back to TRS by using different methods. Thus Rajender, who was the face of TRS and undisputed leader in Huzurabad, became a lone soldier in the by-poll battle field.