Though out of pure coincidence, few incidents that happen in politics find a place in history. KCR almost emptied TDP in Telangana with operation akarsh leaving only three MLAs and Revanth Reddy is one of them. The new seats were allocated to these TDP leaders and Revanth Reddy got seat number 123. Surprisingly, this seat has a lot of prominence and background.
The Beginning:
Chandrababu Naidu became the CM of Andhra Pradesh for the second time in 1999 and KCR did not get a berth in cabinet. KCR was pacified with deputy speaker and the dissatisfied leader focused his full time towards building up a party for Telangana and finally called it quits to TDP after 2 years.
KCR resigned to his MLA post and announced the launch of TRS to fight for separate Telangana. He won as MLA in bi-elections from Siddipet and he was allocated seat number 123 by the then speaker Pratibha Bharathi.
The Revenge:
After 14 years of fight and protest, KCR finally succeeded in achieving a separate state for Telangana and TRS formed its government in the newly formed state. KCR is CM this time.
KCR did not take much time to attract TDP leaders of Telangana into his party leaving only three in the name of T-TDP. Errabelli Dayakar was the floor of Telangana TDP until KCR pulled him into his 'car' along with 11 other leaders. The pink party leader made the 12 migrated MLAs push a letter to speaker asking to dissolve TDLP into TRS. Speaker approved it and allotted their seats on ruling party side.
This compelled the house to adjust seating accordingly and Revanth Reddy became the floor leader for T-TDP sitting at seat number 123!
The Hope:
This seat topic turned the most discussed in Assembly and the history led them to the time of 2001. It is the same seat allotted to TRS MLA KCR by CM Chandrababu Naidu then. Though allotting the same seat to Revanth Reddy now is purely coincidental, TDP leaders are hoping to see Revanth as CM in future!
