Desaraju Surya
The man who often cried that he was “running out of patience” had to ultimately give up and bow himself out in the face-off with the party.
The now former member of Lok Sabha from Kadapa provoked the Congress high command so much so that he wanted it to act against him so that he could go to the people and claim that “I have been punished without committing any sin.”
He waited and waited in vain, often letting it know that he was “running out of patience” as the Congress appeared in no mood to take any step that would “make him a hero.”
As the grand old party played its game with the distinction that it is famous for, Jagan was left “suffering in humiliation.”
More than 14 months have elapsed but the Congress never displayed any urgency to let Jagan realize his dream of becoming Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, even as the state saw the ascendancy of two Chief Ministers in the aftermath of Y
Jagan always thought the Chief Minister’s chair rightfully belonged to him and never shied away from claiming so. Even after the Congress denied him the opportunity, he went to the people and vowed that he would one day become the Chief Minister “come what may.”
A year-long wait made the Chief Minister’s chair look like sour grapes for the industrialist-turned-politician who primarily had more business interests to protect than any other agenda.
Majority of the MLAs who initially supported Jagan’s candidature for the Chief Minister’s post gradually backed out, in sync with the party high command’s mind, but the 20-month-old politician remained adamant.
He then started adopting defiant means to reach his goal. Every move of his, like going on the Odarpu Yatra and targeting the Congress government in the state through his own media, made his detractors in the party cry hoarse about Jagan’s belligerence.
The Congress never really bothered to take note of how Jagan became a multi-billionaire in no time despite having enough evidence to nail him.
The high command continued to give him a long rope all along. But when Sonia Gandhi herself, a Goddess to all Congressmen, was vehemently targeted along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the high command probably wanted to crack the whip.
Still, it went soft on Jagan and sought to extend an olive branch in an other form – by offering a Cabinet berth to his uncle Y S Vivekananda Reddy in the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
This was a “conspiracy against my family and myself” which Jagan could not stand. He let the Congress have the last laugh and quietly sent in his resignation to Sonia Gandhi, not directly but in the form of an “open letter.”
Jagan will now seek the blessings of his late father at his grave and try to re-invent himself as an “independent” political leader.
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