Botsa's CM Ambition Comes to Fore

On the second day of his East Godawari district tour, PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana didn't make any effort to conceal his ambition to become CM in near future. In his growing ambition to project himself as chief ministerial candidate, Botsa went ahead and ensured that his followers and Congress workers left no stone unturned to raise slogans of ‘Botsa, next CM’ at every public meeting and road show he addressed.

'Mana Sattibabu', as Botsa Satyanarayana is called in this part of the state, was much delighted to find his supporters and Congress workers shouting "Botsa, next CM" at every given opportunity. Though his two-day tour did not evoke a great response from the crowds, Satyanarayana looked jubilant and went on showing the victory sign from his bus as his supporters kept him happy with 'Botsa, our new CM' or 'Botsa, next CM' slogans. Curiously, nowhere was there any mention of chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy or his mentor late YS Rajasekhar Reddy in the meetings and road shows. Even, keeping YSR out of focus totally, Botsa tried to win over the masses by stressing on the welfare programmes of the Congress government.

Attacking strategically YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the PCC chief said the YSR Congress chief was only patronizing corruption by seeking a licence to pursue his agenda from his loyalists and followers. "How can people trust a leader who is spending crores of rupees to buy legislators into resigning in support of him," he asked. He said the blackmailing tactics of the Jagan MLAs would not work. Botsa even brushed off Animal Husbandry minister P Vishwaroop, when the latter declared Thota Thrimurthulu as the Congress candidate from Ramachandrapuram in the event of a by-election, to take on Jagan loyalist MLA P Subash Chandra Bose.