KCR and Governor: All’s not well?

It seems as though not all is well between Telangana Chief Minister KCR and governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. This is being said because the governor hasn’t yet given her approval to the nomination of Padi Kaushik Reddy as the MLC under the Governor’s quota.

The cabinet came to this agreement and passed the request to Tamilisai on August 1st, for her approval, but the governor hasn’t yet replied to this request even now, 12 days later. This is said to be causing friction between the governor and the CM. Reddy had defected from the Congress to the TRS just recently, in the third week of July, and was nominated to the MLC post within ten days of joining TRS. While this is not something that the governor can oppose, as the nomination has the cabinet’s approval, everyone is wondering what the reason could be.

KCR was close to former governor ESL Narasimhan and even used to regularly visit him in the Raj Bhavan, almost every week. This is not the case with Tamilisai though, with the CM visiting her only if highly necessary.