Will Eatala get into ‘protective’ cover of BJP?

Efforts on to meet former minister, says BJP leader

With the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government going after former minister for Health Eatala Rajendra in land cases, the Bharatiya Janata Party has begun moves to lure him into its fold on Tuesday. While party president and Karimnagar Member of Parliament Bandi Sanjay Kumar is believed to have met the former minister and invited him to join the party, the political heat increased with reports of Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy too air dashing to Hyderabad along with a senior party functionary from New Delhi in a special plane to to meet Mr. Rajender. In an informal chat with the media persons later in the day, the Minister denied meeting the senior TRS leader but admitted that efforts were on to get them together for a meeting. He and Mr. Rajender have known each other for at least 15 years and there is nothing wrong in their meeting but it does not mean the latter was joining the BJP, Mr. Reddy asserted!