While, the media is abuzz with speculations about match fixing between CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and former minister Sridhar Babu, over sudden change of portfolio of the latter, PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana as if asserting the same “There is no match fixing between them. They are just media creation. Chief Minister has the power to change any minister’s portfolio as and when he wishes. It is just a routine process and no match fixing. I have asked Sridhar Babu not to quit his minister post, but he left,” Botsa told the media.

CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, who yesterday said that he has changed Sridhar Babu’s portfolio to Commercial Taxes as he found there is short fall of revenue in that department, today says that his portfolio has been changed only to avert embarrassment to him in the Assembly as he be made accountable for T-Bill in the house.”

The wide difference in his two statements and his effort to save his skin reveals it is a match fixing to boost political mileage of minister Sridhar Babu, who is a close associate of CM Kiran Kumar Reddy. Therefore, it is to be understood that Botsa has just acknowledges the same with his statement.