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Published Dec 24, 2025 | 4:21 PM ⚊ Updated Dec 24, 2025 | 4:21 PM
Telangana CM Revanth Reddy and BRS supremo KCR
In Telangana, political muscle-flexing has become the order of the day.
The latest buzz in political corridors is that the SIT headed by Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar may soon issue notices to former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao in connection with the infamous phone-tapping case.
Not stopping there, the grapevine has it that former finance minister and senior BRS leader T Harish Rao may also be invited for “questioning”.
The BRS, however, smells more than just bureaucratic paperwork in these whispers. The party suspects a carefully choreographed “leak-fest” to the media designed to convey a single dramatic message: “Jail to you, soon.”
The war of nerves is matching in intensity the cold war that existed between the erstwhile USSR and the US, following the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
At the centre of this political tug-of-war is Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, locked in a fencing match with the BRS’s big three — KCR, KTR and Harish Rao.
Party insiders say Revanth has been patiently waiting to settle old scores: payback for his own brush with jail in the note-for-vote case, and for KTR allegedly sending him behind bars over a drone flight over his Janwada farmhouse when the BRS was in power.
The chief minister, it appears, has already pressed the ‘start’ button. KTR was successfully hauled before investigators in the Formula-E case, though the BRS leader dismissed it as a “lotta peesu” — a flimsy affair that, according to him, left the ACB clutching at paperwork but short on proof.
While the ACB is reportedly busy drafting a chargesheet, the Sajjanar-led SIT is said to be in overdrive, contemplating notices to KCR and Harish Rao as well.
For political bystanders, this spectacle resembles less a criminal investigation and more a high-voltage wrestling match — complete with dramatic entrances, slow-motion threats and plenty of chest-thumping.
The Congress may be flexing, but the BRS claims it isn’t even breaking a sweat. Instead, it says the real issue is the government’s inability to answer pointed questions about the implementation of the six guarantees and several other promises that are still waiting for delivery.
Adding more spice to the simmering pot, Harish Rao issued a stern warning to police officers, cautioning that those who harass BRS leaders to please their political bosses should remember what is happening to IPS officers who had danced to Jagan Mohan Reddy’s tune when the latter was in power in Andhra Pradesh — a reminder served chilled.
As this political see-saw continues, temperatures are soaring in Telangana’s power circles, even as Hyderabad shivers through an unusually cold winter. Clearly, when politics heats up, even winter doesn’t stand a chance.
Revanth Reddy is bent on serving revenge cold and the BRS, always trying to intimidate him that if he does what he is contemplating, may be should recall what happeend in Andhra Padesh in 2024 elections.
