The issue of Dalit leaders has become a taboo for the Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao given his earlier promise of Dalit CM and later controversial sacking of Rajaiah who was health minister and also Deputy CM.

Now the latest one to join the bandwagon is kadiyam srihari, the TDP stalwart of Warangal district who defected two years ago to TRS and has now left the MP post to be Deputy CM of Telangana State.

Sources say that with reports over KCR requesting Congress leader Vivek to come back into TRS and contest as MP from Warangal, it has rattled Srihari who doesn’t want the rich candidate Vivekanand to dominate Warangal politics.

Since Vivek is from mala community and he is a madiga, Srihari has announced that after him vacating the MP seat, only a madiga should contest from there and not a mala, which has upset KCR who has reportedly expressed his displeasure over Srihari’s open stand on this issue!