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Published Sep 25, 2024 | 4:11 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 25, 2024 | 4:11 PM
BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi attends Congress Legislative Party meetings, raising doubts over his political allegiance. (Gandhi Arekapudi/X )
Voters of the Serilingampally Assembly segment in Hyderabad are in an unenviable predicament. A majority of voters are confused over the party they supported in the 30 November 2023 election.
They are now hoping that the MLA, Arekapudi Gandhi, would clear the air. He was with the BRS when they voted for him. Now he is in both the Congress and BRS, a rare feat in Telangana politics.
There is a justifiable reason for the voters’ confusion. Gandhi, head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), attends the Congress Legislative Party meeting as well, as he did on Sunday, 22 September.
Normally, MLAs belonging to a particular outfit attend the respective legislative party meetings. In the case of Gandhi, he seems to have multiple avatars that have left the voters confused.
When Gandhi presides over the PAC meeting, he is a BRS legislator and when attends the CLP meeting convened by the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, he is a Congress MLA.
Gandhi is such a Congress MLA that no leader of the more-than-a-century-old party considers him as one among them. So is the case with BRS leaders. Gandhi claims to be a BRS MLA but makes moves against his party men.
The chief minister disowned him, saying he belongs to the BRS but he is always seen with Revanth Reddy. The BRS leaders gnash teeth at their own MLA. Gandhi, however, is unperturbed, though his actions remind many of the English phrase, “having one’s feet in two boats”.
